superintendence

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of superintending; supervision.

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

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

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