tu·te·lar·y

(to͞ot′l-ĕr′ē, tyo͞ot′-) also tu·te·lar (to͞ot′l-ər, -är′, tyo͞ot′-)

adj.

1. Being or serving as a guardian or protector: tutelary gods.

2. Of or relating to a guardian or guardianship.

n. pl. tu·te·lar·ies also tu·te·lars

One that serves as a guardian or protector.

[From Latin tūtēlārius, guardian, from tūtēla, tutelage; see tutelage.]

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tutelary

(ˈtjuːtɪlərɪ) or

tutelar

adj

1. invested with the role of guardian or protector

2. of or relating to a guardian or guardianship

n, pl -laries or -lars

a tutelary person, deity, or saint

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tu•te•lar•y

(ˈtut lˌɛr i, ˈtyut-)

also tu•te•lar

(-l ər)

adj., n., pl. -lar•ies. adj.

1. having the position of guardian or protector of a person, place, or thing.

2. of or pertaining to a guardian or guardianship.

3. a person who has tutelary powers, as a saint, deity, or guardian.

[1605–15; < Latin tūtēlārius guardian; see tutelage, -ary]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

tutelary - providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding; "daycare that is educational and not just custodial"; "a guardian angel"; "tutelary gods"

custodial, tutelar

protective - intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind; "a protective covering"; "the use of protective masks and equipment"; "protective coatings"; "kept the drunken sailor in protective custody"; "animals with protective coloring"; "protective tariffs"

Translations

tutelary

[ˈtjuːtɪlərɪ] ADJ → tutelar

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tutelary

adj (form, of guardian) → vormundschaftlich; tutelary deity → Schutzgott m, → Schutzgöttin f

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Thus, then, one of our own noble stamp, even a whaleman, is the tutelary guardian of England; and by good rights, we harpooneers of Nantucket should be enrolled in the most noble order of St.

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She loved him so passionately, and he was so godlike in her eyes; and being, though untrained, instinctively refined, her nature cried for his tutelary guidance.

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They were a species of tutelary sprite, or Banshee; although winged and feathered differently from most other guardian angels.

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If her simplicity had been the simplicity of pettiness he would have chafed and rebelled; but since the lines of her character, though so few, were on the same fine mould as her face, she became the tutelary divinity of all his old traditions and reverences.

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Morpheus, the tutelary deity of the apartment, towards whom Louis raised his eyes, wearied by his anger and reconciled by his tears, showered down upon him the sleep-inducing poppies with which his hands are ever filled; so presently the monarch closed his eyes and fell asleep.

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And yet Mehevi, and other chiefs of unquestionable veracity--to say nothing of the Primate himself--assured me over and over again that Moa Artua was the tutelary deity of Typee, and was more to be held in honour than a whole battalion of the clumsy idols in the Hoolah Hoolah grounds.

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But it is stretching things to characterize the tutelary monster Huwawa as game (so p.

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