tutelary

Even the warning that a concert is about to begin isn’t the usual docile bells, but a spreading roar of electronics from “Répons” by Pierre Boulez, a tutelary spirit here for decades.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2022

In an ideal world, our entertainment would not have to be tutelary, would not need to “set a good example.”

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2019

Having no children of his own, Guadagnino has fallen into a tutelary role toward the young people in his life.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

I leave the last word to The Review Show's tutelary spirit, Tom Paulin.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2013

In Italy this fact gave birth to a tutelary genius, or shadowy saint, whose special care was the raft-men of Arno and other rivers.

From A West Country Pilgrimage by Eden Phillpots

The male priests and the warrior priests invoke their respective tutelaries before a trapping expedition and the manikiad43 calls upon the emissary44 of the war deities.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan

The Doctor saw the force of the retort: my two tutelaries will see it by this time.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith

The most efficacious tutelaries are tantric forms of the Dhyâni Buddhas, especially Vajrasattva, Vajradhara and Amitâyus.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot

A second class of tutelaries is composed of so-called Buddhas, accompanied by Śaktis and terrific in aspect, who are manifestations of the Buddhahood for special purposes.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot

Overhead the great mountains shot up their craggy heads, blasted into a score of fantastic shapes, frowning down upon the barbarous scene like grim tutelaries of destruction.

From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford