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

Somerset, at last, was obliged to resign his protectorship; and Warwick, who had suppressed the rebellion, formed the chief of a new council of regency.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Lord, John

On their journey, the Roman envoys sent to assume the office of protectorship remonstrated with Philip.

From Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Pennell, Robert Franklin

Samuel Barmby, joyous in his protectorship of two young ladies, for he regarded Horace as a mere boy, bustled about them whilst they stood waiting for the arrival of the Westminster car.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George

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