superintendence

plural superintendences

1. countableuncountableThe act of superintending; supervision.

   […] then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.

   1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

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   While the Supreme Being exercises a general superintendence over affairs, the real administration is in the hands of the ancestral spirits.

   1906, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, volume 2, page 189

   The Ashby Canal was built under the superintendence of Robert Whitworth, and the whole length was opened in May, 1805.

   1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 5

   Synonyms: superintendency