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

She also agreed to pay one hundred millions of francs to France, and to permit the formation of a new Confederation of the smaller German States, which should be placed under the protectorship of Napoleon.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard

In time, however, the exercise of the muscles cured the revolutionary brain-fag, and the Government was enabled to assume a sort of protectorship over gymnastics.

From Atta Troll by Heine, Heinrich

A feeling of protectorship, a faint consciousness of motherhood, gave her face an exquisite look of entreaty.

From Sunlight Patch by Harris, Credo Fitch

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