different between guardianship vs assistance

English

Etymology

guardian +? -ship

Noun

guardianship (plural guardianships)

1. The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity.
   • 1917, Maulana Muhammad Ali (translator), Qu’ran The Women, 4.23

     Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters and your sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts and brothers' daughters and sisters' daughters and your mothers that have suckled you and your foster-sisters and mothers of your wives and your step-daughters who are in your guardianship, (born) of your wives to whom you have gone in, but if you have not gone in to them, there is no blame on you (in marrying them), and the wives of your sons who are of your own loins and that you should have two sisters together, except what has already passed; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

   • 1986 Philip Bean, "Mental Disorder and Legal Control" - Page 84

     An application for guardianship must be founded on two medical recommendations, the procedure being similar to an application for admission for treatment.

Synonyms

• tutelarity

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• assistaunce

Etymology

From Middle English assistance, from Middle French assistance, from Medieval Latin assistentia, from Latin assist? (“I stand at”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??s?s.t?ns/

Noun

assistance (usually uncountable, plural assistances)

1. Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.

Derived terms

• public assistance

Translations

French

Etymology

From Late Latin assistentia.

Noun

assistance f (plural assistances)

1. assistance
2. audience

Derived terms

• assistance publique

Related terms

• assistant

Further reading

• “assistance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).