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

He found himself taken under a dovelike protectorship; a wonderful, inexpressible Being seemed to have become his proprietor.

From Ramsey Milholland by Tarkington, Booth

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 Hume, David

They asked him whether he did not mean that his eldest son, Richard, should succeed him in the protectorship.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David

It is possible that Hobbes might have anticipated the sovereign power which the general was on the point of assuming in the protectorship.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac