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

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

Samuel Barmby, joyous in his protectorship of two young ladies, for he regarded Horace as a mere boy, bustled about them whilst they stood waiting for the arrival of the Westminster car.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George

However this may be, the woman's kin exercises, primâ facie, some kind of protectorship.

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

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