tutelary

“It seems clear that the military continues to have this idea of itself as a tutelary force in politics.”

From New York Times ● May 1, 2020

In an ideal world, our entertainment would not have to be tutelary, would not need to “set a good example.”

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2019

Having no children of his own, Guadagnino has fallen into a tutelary role toward the young people in his life.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

I leave the last word to The Review Show's tutelary spirit, Tom Paulin.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2013

Where wast thou, then, sweet Charity, where then, Thou tutelary friend of helpless men?

From Samboe; or, The African Boy by Mary Ann Hedge

The Doctor saw the force of the retort: my two tutelaries will see it by this time.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith

Overhead the great mountains shot up their craggy heads, blasted into a score of fantastic shapes, frowning down upon the barbarous scene like grim tutelaries of destruction.

From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford

The male priests and the warrior priests invoke their respective tutelaries before a trapping expedition and the manikiad43 calls upon the emissary44 of the war deities.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan

The most efficacious tutelaries are tantric forms of the Dhyâni Buddhas, especially Vajrasattva, Vajradhara and Amitâyus.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot

The enquirer finds a similar difficulty when he tries in the twentieth century to identify rural deities, or even the tutelaries of many great temples, with any personages recognized by the canonical literature.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot