Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Managing; careful; provident.
- With or as with the care of a steward; prudently; providently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb rare In a manner, or with the care, of a steward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Befitting asteward . - adjective
Managing ;careful ;provident . - adverb With or as with the care of a steward;
prudently ;providently .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If she could nurture his inadequacies and keep him in a stewardly frame of mind, maybe one day he would make an obedient husband for somebody like his father was to her, she told herself.
FUCKFACE CH 1: He Was Wrong, So They Drowned Cupcake Kid 2011
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No answer, but a great shaking of stewardly heads.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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Consumers who feel a prompting toward land stewardship find that in this economy they can have no stewardly practice.
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But woe betide us (meaning those who take part in bringing children and books together) if we forget the stewardly nature of our work. posted by Roger Sutton at 6: 42 PM
While Cathy Adores the Minuet Roger Sutton 2006
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But woe betide us (meaning those who take part in bringing children and books together) if we forget the stewardly nature of our work. posted by Roger Sutton at 6: 42 PM
Archive 2006-03-01 Roger Sutton 2006
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Consumers who feel a prompting toward land stewardship find that in this economy they can have no stewardly practice.
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No answer, but a great shaking of stewardly heads.
Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998
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All absolute lordly power is in God originally: all lordly magisterial mediatory power is in Christ dispensatorily: all official, stewardly power is by delegation from Christ only in the church guides [93] ministerially, as the only proper subject thereof that may exercise the same lawfully in Christ's name: yet all power, both magisterial in Christ, and ministerial in Christ's officers, is for the
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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Jesus Christ our Mediator did immediately commit the proper, formal, ministerial, or stewardly authority and power for governing of his church to his own church guides as the proper immediate receptacle or first subject thereof.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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_The keys of the kingdom of heaven_ are committed to them, Matt.xvi. 19, and _keys_ import a stewardly power: compare Matt.xvi. 19, and xviii.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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