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