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

They supposed that he sought to make the protectorship hereditary in his family.

From The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Belloc, Hilaire

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

I mean even personal respect—the modest respect of humanity, and fellow-feeling; not the libidinous mockery of gallantry, nor the insolent condescension of protectorship.

From Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Wollstonecraft, Mary

James Naylor was a Quaker, noted for blasphemy, or rather madness, in the time of the protectorship.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David