Etymology
Origin of tutorage
Example Sentences
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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 Salmon, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie)
Lincoln fretted under the tutorage of his father, and longed for the hour of his legal freedom.
From Lincoln, the Politician by Levy, T. Aaron
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
He saw a good deal of Mr. Keene, who, as Alice gathered from various remarks in Richard's letters, exercised over him a sort of tutorage.
From Demos by Gissing, George
Yet our classical knowledge was the least of the good gifts, which we derived from his zealous and conscientious tutorage.
From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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