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tutelary

[toot-l-er-ee, tyoot-] / ˈtut lˌɛr i, ˈtyut- /
ADJECTIVE
protecting
Synonyms


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This year’s Cannes selection was unveiled under a revered image, almost a tutelary deity.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2019

In an ideal world, our entertainment would not have to be tutelary, would not need to “set a good example.”

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2019

Having no children of his own, Guadagnino has fallen into a tutelary role toward the young people in his life.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

The production’s central figures include a young African mother, in perpetual flight and exile, and a Native American, who presides as sort of a tutelary spirit over her fraught travels.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2014

Gronski was swept by an intense longing for such a sweet, tutelary divinity who does not deign to scorn entreaties and who delivers us from evil.

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk




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