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Definition of Tutelar
1. Adjective. Providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding. "Tutelary gods"
Definition of Tutelar
1. a. Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses.
Definition of Tutelar
1. Adjective. Serving as a guardian; protective; tutelary. ¹
2. Noun. One that is tutelary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tutelar
1. a tutelary [n -S] - See also: tutelary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tutelar
Literary usage of Tutelar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... as the religion of the Greeks, they acquired an additional claim to the
friendship of Julian, who ranked the Muses in the number of his tutelar deities. ..."
2. An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean by William Mariner, John Martin (1817)
"... The king returns thanks to his tutelar god — Hints of his priest — Apprehension
and punishment of Mappa ..."
3. Sketches of the History of Man: In Four Volumes by Henry Home Kames (1775)
"The Iliad of Homer is full of miraculous battles between the Greeks and Trojans,
the tutelar deities mixing with the" contending parties, and partaking of ..."
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