tutelar

Those which they call their tutelar deities shall be no protection to them.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Note: 1 The Americans sometimes called their tutelar saint Tamenay, a corruption of the name of the renowned chief here introduced.

The Last of the Mohicans 1826

* The Americans sometimes called their tutelar saint

The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820

* The Chinese believe there are a kind of tutelar spirits, or good Genii: in the cities there are temples to them, in which the Mandarines offer sacrifice: as also to the spirits of the rivers, mountains, four parts of the world, &c.P. Semedo's hist. part.

Hau Kiou Choaan : 1761

Mrs. Witherington was, in conferring her maternal bounty, naturally led to employ the agency of Hartley, the companion of her son, and to whom, since the recovery of her younger children, she almost looked up as to a tutelar deity.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

We use the word “genius” indifferently in speaking of the tutelar demon of a town of antiquity, or an artist, or a musician.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Sua cuique civitati (Laeli) religio sit, nostra nobis, Tully thought fit every city should be free in this behalf, adore their own Custodes et Topicos Deos, tutelar and local gods, as Symmachus calls them.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

What, Lamprias, will you permit our tutelar god, called Evius, the inciter of women, famous for the honors he has conferred upon him by madmen, to be inscribed and enrolled in the mysteries of the

Symposiacs 2004

What, Lamprias, will you permit our tutelar god, called Evius, the inciter of women, famous for the honors he has conferred upon him by madmen, to be inscribed and enrolled in the mysteries of the

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Was Alice his unknown warden, and was this maiden of the cavern the tutelar genius that watched his bed during his sickness?

Waverley 2004