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Definition of Tutelary
1. Adjective. Providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding. "Tutelary gods"
Definition of Tutelary
1. Adjective. Having guardianship or protection of ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to guardians ¹
3. Adjective. Having the propensity or quality of a tutor ¹
4. Noun. A guardian or protector ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tutelary
1. one who has the power to protect [n -LARIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tutelary
Literary usage of Tutelary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"By occasional tutelary motives, I mean such motives as may chance to act in this
direction or not, according to the nature of the act, and of the particular ..."
2. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1907)
"By occasional tutelary motives, I mean such motives as may chance to act in this
direction or not, according to the nature of the act, and of the particular ..."
3. The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated by William Warburton (1837)
"By which is meant, that they treated him as a local tutelary deity, of a confined
... Thus in this indulgence of their prejudices concerning a tutelary god. ..."
4. Lectures on the Moral Government of God by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"Certain characteristics of the system are undeniable, viz., the Mosaic system
reveals God as national king and tutelary deity.—All its laws are from G-od. ..."
5. Religious Thoughts and Life in India: An Account of the Religions of the by Monier Monier-Williams (1883)
"In India tutelary functions were no doubt ultimately associated with both Siva
and Vishnu, ... In the South of India another tutelary god named ..."
6. Religious Thought and Life in India: An Account of the Religions of the by Monier Monier-Williams (1885)
"tutelary and Village Deities. IT may be said that all deities ought to be ...
In India tutelary functions were no doubt ultimately associated with both Siva ..."
7. Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by John Gregorson Campbell (1900)
"... was a tutelary being in the shape of a thin grey (tana glas) little woman,
with long yellow hair reaching to her heels, dressed in green, ..."
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