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

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

From Ramsey Milholland by Tarkington, Booth

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

I have heard him called inconstant of purpose—when he deserted, for the sake of love, the hope of sovereignty, and when he abdicated the protectorship of England, men blamed his infirmity of purpose.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft