tutelar
- a variation of tutelary.
Example Sentences
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None of the greater gods of Hellas are winged like the tutelar gods of the Assyrians and Persians were.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas
Ah, but his tutelar deities are better physicians, he thought.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
The temples in the country were generally surrounded with groves sacred to the tutelar deity of the place, where, before the invention of temples, the gods were worshipped.
From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous
Her tutelar divinity was the moon, whose light and protection she invoked, with a devout, if not an enlightened faith.
From Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 by Vide, V. V.
The ben-shie or banshee was a tutelar spirit, supposed to forebode by midnight howlings the death of a member of a family to which it was attached.
From Lady of the Lake by Moody, William Vaughn
