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tutelary
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Definition:serving as a guardian or protector. Often refers to a deity.
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"for as soon as a nation has chosen a tutelary god, that god has priests. These priests govern the spirit of the nation; they can govern only in the name of their god, so they make him speak continually; they set forth his oracles, and all things are done by God's express commands."
Edward Jackson Lowell. The Eve of the French Revolution
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If this tutelary deity of the ancient Americans really invented representative government they were not the first by many to whom he imparted the malign secret of its inauguration and denied that of its maintenance.
Ambrose Bierce. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
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Once in the fields we never left them again during the rest of our Méséglise walk. They were perpetually crossed, as though by invisible streams of traffic, by the wind, which was to me the tutelary genius of Combray.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] (1913)
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