protectorship

Example Sentences

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But by the time of Annie Leibovitz’s protectorship her self-image had changed.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2019

The German Empire had lost all of its Italian possessions, which were now grouped together into a Cisalpine Republic, under the protectorship of France.

From A Short History of Germany by Parmele, Mary Platt

A protectorship will be proposed within a week.”

From The Traitors by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

How now, Numps! almost tired in your protectorship? overparted, overparted?”

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

A feeling of protectorship, a faint consciousness of motherhood, gave her face an exquisite look of entreaty.

From Sunlight Patch by Harris, Credo Fitch