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

He found himself taken under a dovelike protectorship; a wonderful, inexpressible Being seemed to have become his proprietor.

From Ramsey Milholland by Tarkington, Booth

Waller, the poet, who was bred at King's College, wrote a fine panegyric on Cromwell, when he assumed the protectorship.

From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Lemon, Mark

She also agreed to pay one hundred millions of francs to France, and to permit the formation of a new Confederation of the smaller German States, which should be placed under the protectorship of Napoleon.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard

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