tutelary

This year’s Cannes selection was unveiled under a revered image, almost a tutelary deity.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2019

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

The production’s central figures include a young African mother, in perpetual flight and exile, and a Native American, who presides as sort of a tutelary spirit over her fraught travels.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2014

Poseidon was the tutelary deity of the city, and on her coins he appears brandishing his trident, a mighty emblem of sea empire.

From Naples Past and Present by Arthur H. Norway

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

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

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

The enquirer finds a similar difficulty when he tries in the twentieth century to identify rural deities, or even the tutelaries of many great temples, with any personages recognized by the canonical literature.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot