protectorship
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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
Samuel Barmby, joyous in his protectorship of two young ladies, for he regarded Horace as a mere boy, bustled about them whilst they stood waiting for the arrival of the Westminster car.
From In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
How now, Numps! almost tired in your protectorship? overparted, overparted?”
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A sense of protectorship, tender in its self-reproach, grew upon me—a longing for atonement.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, first prince of the blood, assumed the vacant protectorship.
From Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman
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