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
It would appear, however, that the "bride-sale," of which Tacitus speaks, was not strictly the sale of a chattel nor of a slave-girl, but the sale of the mund or protectorship over the girl.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
A protectorship will be proposed within a week.”
From The Traitors by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
On their journey, the Roman envoys sent to assume the office of protectorship remonstrated with Philip.
From Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Pennell, Robert Franklin
And did he not, in his protectorship, Levy great sums of money through the realm For soldiers' pay in France, and never sent it?
From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William
