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

A sense of protectorship, tender in its self-reproach, grew upon me—a longing for atonement.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

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

How now, Numps! almost tired in your protectorship? overparted, overparted?”

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

A protectorship will be proposed within a week.”

From The Traitors by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)