protector
noun
a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
protectorship
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a word derived from
protector.
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
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 Anne Douglas Sedgwick
I have heard him called inconstant of purpose—when he deserted, for the sake of love, the hope of sovereignty, and when he abdicated the protectorship of England, men blamed his infirmity of purpose.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
And did he not, in his protectorship, Levy great sums of money through the realm For soldiers' pay in France, and never sent it?
From King Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
Then to accept his family's protectorship and hospitality for that same end was even more obnoxious.
From Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast by Charles Clark Munn
