Etymology
Origin of tutorage
Example Sentences
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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 Pearson, Francis B.
He wore the same gown as the others, and his tutorage, etc. was no higher; but there was nothing servile in his situation."—"
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
While I was thus banqueting upon my own perfections, and longing in secret to escape from tutorage, my father's brother came from London to pass a summer at his native place.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel
This system of tutorage is by no means uncommon, nor is it confined to the male sex.
From The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age by Wilderspin, Samuel
Is it credible then, that, in order to free themselves from the gentle tutorage of their parent, they should run directly into the jaws of ruin and slavery?
From The Justice and Necessity of Taxing the American Colonies, Demonstrated Together with a Vindication of the Authority of Parliament by Unknown
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