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
He found himself taken under a dovelike protectorship; a wonderful, inexpressible Being seemed to have become his proprietor.
From Ramsey Milholland by Booth Tarkington
However this may be, the woman's kin exercises, primâ facie, some kind of protectorship.
From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas
In time, however, the exercise of the muscles cured the revolutionary brain-fag, and the Government was enabled to assume a sort of protectorship over gymnastics.
From Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine
Somerset, at last, was obliged to resign his protectorship; and Warwick, who had suppressed the rebellion, formed the chief of a new council of regency.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord
