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
You have only to prove the offense and the right of protectorship, and I shall be at your service.
From To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
He found himself taken under a dovelike protectorship; a wonderful, inexpressible Being seemed to have become his proprietor.
From Ramsey Milholland by Booth Tarkington
Waller, and Sprat, and Cowley had equally commemorated the protectorship of Cromwell and the restoration of Charles.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
A feeling of protectorship, a faint consciousness of motherhood, gave her face an exquisite look of entreaty.
From Sunlight Patch by Credo Fitch Harris
