Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An institution providing for the welfare of homeless, destitute, or delinquent children.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An institution for the protection and training of destitute, vagrant, truant, or vicious children: the specific name of a Roman Catholic institution in New York city.
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Examples
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The brothers give special attention to the trade school of the protectory; printing, press-feeding, book-binding, baking, shoe-making, tailoring, plumbing, gas-fitting, and other trades are taught with excellent results.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Besides the institutions just mentioned there are numerous orphan asylums, industrial school, infant asylums, day homes and a protectory for boys to which is attached a boys 'industrial farm at Rutherford.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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St.Ann. A protectory which was started at the same place is now at
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Mercy at Montabaur; in 1862, the diocesan protectory of Marienstatt; in 1850, the hospital of the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul at
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Michéle, the first protectory for youth, was founded at Rome in 1704 by Clement XI.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The district of which Baltimore has become the centre now contains 24 houses, the Brothers of which for the most part are engaged in gratuitous parochial schools; they also conduct five colleges; a protectory; and the foundations of the family of the late
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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During one of the sessions there had appeared in the lobby an excellent man, Dr. Levi Silliman Ives, formerly Protestant Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, who, having been converted to Roman Catholicism, had become a layman and head of a protectory for Catholic children.
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I had strong sympathy with the men who carried on the protectory, and was quite willing to go as far as possible in aiding them, but was opposed to voting such a vast landed property belonging to the city into the hands of any church, and I fought the bill at all stages.
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Abandoned at an early age, Davis grew up in New York’s Catholic protectory.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Abandoned at an early age, Davis grew up in New York’s Catholic protectory.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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