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Tutelary - What does it mean?

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tutelary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having guardianship or protection.
    • when a minor is involved, frequently tutelary powers acompany powers of attorney
  • * Landor
    • This, of all advantages, is the greatest the most tutelary of morals.
  • * 1835 , , chapter 6
    • Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate.
  • Of or pertaining to guardians
    • those are, of course, tutelary''' benefits which follow the '''tutelary responsibilities
  • Having the qualities of a tutor.

    • Quotations

    * 1891 — , Ch XXIX *: She loved him so passionately, and he was so godlike in her eyes; and being, though untrained, instinctively refined, her nature cried for his tutelary guidance.

    Noun

    (tutelaries)
  • A guardian or protector
    • Batman served as a tutelary of Gotham City
  • * 1920 — , Book I
    • At St. Regis' Amory stayed three days and took his exams with a scoffing confidence, then doubling back to New York to pay his tutelary visit.

    Related terms

    * tutor * tutelage

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