Etymology
Origin of tutorage
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Some of them may have been interpreting life as having a good time, but, under the tutorage of Tom, they soon came to feel that having a good time means whitewashing a fence.
From The Vitalized School by Francis B. Pearson
Possessed of this notion, he determined to take the young mendicant under his own tutorage and instruction.
From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett
Monsieur, I find it is your notion in England, as well as theirs in France, to bring other Sovereigns under your tutorage, and lead them about.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
In 1833 or 1834, he came North, placing himself in the Lutheran Theological Seminary, at Gettysburg, under the tutorage of the learned and distinguished Dr. Schmucker, where he finished his education as a Lutheran clergyman.
From The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States by Martin Robison Delany
It was from such tough fibres that the British navy was built; those strenuous days of constant conflict and privateering were a grand tutorage for seamen, though not unexceptionable from a moral standpoint.
From The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon
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