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

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

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

From Ramsey Milholland by Tarkington, Booth

James Naylor was a Quaker, noted for blasphemy, or rather madness, in the time of the protectorship.

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

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