tutorship

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

tutorship
    n 1: teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired
         privately) [syn: {tutelage}, {tuition}, {tutorship}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tutorship \Tu"tor*ship\, n.
   The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage.
   --Hooker.
   [1913 Webster]

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

TUTORSHIP. The power which an individual, sui juris, has to take care of the 
person of one who is unable to take care of himself. Tutorship differs from 
curatorship, (q.v.) Vide Procurator; Pro-tutor; Undertutor.

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "tutorship":
      catechization, chair, chair of English, coaching, didactics,
      direction, edification, education, enlightenment, fellowship,
      guidance, illumination, information, instruction, pedagogics,
      pedagogy, preceptorship, private teaching, professorate,
      professorhood, professoriate, professorship,
      programmed instruction, readership, reeducation, schooling,
      schoolmastery, self-instruction, self-teaching, spoon-feeding,
      teachership, teaching, tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring