Sentence example with the word 'tutelar'

tutelar

Definition adj. providing protective supervision

Last update: September 27, 2015


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Of the city of Agade of Sargon I., which remained for a long period the leading city of Babylonia.3 It is quite probable that the non-Semitic name Agade may mean "crown (aga) of fire (de)" 4 in allusion to Istar, "the brilliant goddess," the tutelar deity of the morning and evening star and the goddess of war and love, whose cult was observed in very early times in Agade.   [Please select]

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Near some of the caverns a tutelar goddess is worshipped, whose priest burns incense, and lays his projecting hands on every person preparing to descend.   [Please select]

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* The Americans sometimes called their tutelar saint Tamenay, a corruption of the name of the renowned chief here introduced.   [Please select]

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Was Alice his unknown warden, and was this maiden of the cavern the tutelar genius that watched his bed during his sickness.   [Please select]

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