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

It would appear, however, that the "bride-sale," of which Tacitus speaks, was not strictly the sale of a chattel nor of a slave-girl, but the sale of the mund or protectorship over the girl.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock

Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, first prince of the blood, assumed the vacant protectorship.

From Pioneers of France in the New World by Parkman, Francis

Waller, and Sprat, and Cowley had equally commemorated the protectorship of Cromwell and the restoration of Charles.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

Then to accept his family's protectorship and hospitality for that same end was even more obnoxious.

From Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast by Munn, Charles Clark