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
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
He found himself taken under a dovelike protectorship; a wonderful, inexpressible Being seemed to have become his proprietor.
From Ramsey Milholland by Booth Tarkington
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
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 George Gissing
