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
In 828 the body of the Evangelist, stolen from Alexandria, was brought to Venice and S. Theodore the tutelary saint deposed to make way for a more important patron.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
Vocabulary lists containing tutelary
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 33
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