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
I mean even personal respect—the modest respect of humanity, and fellow-feeling; not the libidinous mockery of gallantry, nor the insolent condescension of protectorship.
From Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Wollstonecraft, Mary
A protectorship will be proposed within a week.”
From The Traitors by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
A sense of protectorship, tender in its self-reproach, grew upon me—a longing for atonement.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
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
