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
In time, however, the exercise of the muscles cured the revolutionary brain-fag, and the Government was enabled to assume a sort of protectorship over gymnastics.
From Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine
It would appear, however, that the "bride-sale," of which Tacitus speaks, was not strictly the sale of a chattel nor of a slave-girl, but the sale of the mund or protectorship over the girl.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
Waller, and Sprat, and Cowley had equally commemorated the protectorship of Cromwell and the restoration of Charles.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
They asked him whether he did not mean that his eldest son, Richard, should succeed him in the protectorship.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
