neglect vs wardship

neglect

verb
  • To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness. 

  • To fail to care for or attend to something. 

  • To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight. 

  • To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy. 

noun
  • Habitual lack of care. 

  • The act of neglecting. 

  • The state of being neglected. 

wardship

noun
  • The state of being a ward of someone. 

  • In English feudal law, the guardianship which the lord had of the land of his vassal while the latter was an infant or minor. 

How often have the words neglect and wardship occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )