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
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 Samuel Johnson
"Receive him graciously, Mo-sar," counseled he who had spoken before, his advice prompted by the petty shrewdness of his defective brain which, under the added influence of Lu-don's tutorage leaned always toward duplicity.
From Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Glasgow curriculum, for John especially, lasted but one year; who, after some farther tutorage from Mr. Jacobson or Dr. Trollope, was appointed for a more ambitious sphere of education.
From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
And so at the meeting time, in the air or up there, there will be instant recognition, as well as instant delight over the growth under such wondrous tutorage.
From Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
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