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

However this may be, the woman's kin exercises, primâ facie, some kind of protectorship.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

I have assigned two hundred pesos additional salary to the eight hundred of the protectorship to Don Luis Arias de Mora; for, in addition to exercising this office, he is the archbishop’s counselor.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen

The word here translated "Vicegerency" is, in the original Arabic, "viláyat", which has a range of meanings including "vicegerency", "guardianship", "protectorship" and "successorship".

From The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, first prince of the blood, assumed the vacant protectorship.

From Pioneers of France in the New World by Parkman, Francis