Definition of "stewardly" []

• Befitting a steward. (adjective)
• Managing; careful; provident. (adjective)
• With or as with the care of a steward; prudently; providently. (adverb)

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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."
• "No answer, but a great shaking of stewardly heads."
• "Consumers who feel a prompting toward land stewardship find that in this economy they can have no stewardly practice."