protectorship
Example Sentences
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But by the time of Annie Leibovitz’s protectorship her self-image had changed.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 16, 2019
I have heard him called inconstant of purpose—when he deserted, for the sake of love, the hope of sovereignty, and when he abdicated the protectorship of England, men blamed his infirmity of purpose.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, first prince of the blood, assumed the vacant protectorship.
From Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman
James Naylor was a Quaker, noted for blasphemy, or rather madness, in the time of the protectorship.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
I mean even personal respect—the modest respect of humanity, and fellow-feeling; not the libidinous mockery of gallantry, nor the insolent condescension of protectorship.
From Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
