protectorship

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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 assigned two hundred pesos additional salary to the eight hundred of the protectorship to Don Luis Arias de Mora; for, in addition to exercising this office, he is the archbishop’s counselor.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen

Thereupon B�ranger, who did not like to be forgotten in this chorus of praise, paid a ceremonious visit to Sue, and between the two they assumed the protectorship of the horny-handed son of toil.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

And did he not, in his protectorship, Levy great sums of money through the realm For soldiers' pay in France, and never sent it?

From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William

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