tutelary

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This year’s Cannes selection was unveiled under a revered image, almost a tutelary deity.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2019

In an ideal world, our entertainment would not have to be tutelary, would not need to “set a good example.”

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2019

Having no children of his own, Guadagnino has fallen into a tutelary role toward the young people in his life.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

The production’s central figures include a young African mother, in perpetual flight and exile, and a Native American, who presides as sort of a tutelary spirit over her fraught travels.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2014

Lar, l�r, n. one of a class of local deities, originally Etruscan, but in Roman usage usually regarded as the tutelary deities of a house:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various