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
A feeling of protectorship, a faint consciousness of motherhood, gave her face an exquisite look of entreaty.
From Sunlight Patch by Harris, Credo Fitch
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
He found himself taken under a dovelike protectorship; a wonderful, inexpressible Being seemed to have become his proprietor.
From Ramsey Milholland by Tarkington, Booth
A protectorship will be proposed within a week.”
From The Traitors by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
