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

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

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

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

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

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