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

A protectorship will be proposed within a week.”

From The Traitors by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

They asked him whether he did not mean that his eldest son, Richard, should succeed him in the protectorship.

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

But if, before kinship was reckoned at all, this protectorship were exercised for the benefit of the children, we clearly have a possible cause of matriliny.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

What they did see was that he at once assumed a fatherly protectorship over his little niece, and she became his sole charge and care in life.

From Rockhaven by Munn, Charles Clark