PROTEGEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protegee mean? 

• PROTEGEE (noun)
  The noun PROTEGEE has 1 sense:

1. a woman protege

  Familiarity information: PROTEGEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTEGEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman protege

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("protegee" is a kind of...):

protege (a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career)

 Context examples 

Not that I humbled myself by a slavish notion of inferiority: on the contrary, I just said—You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protegee, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With more care for the safety of her new gown than for the comfort of her protegee, Mrs. Allen made her way through the throng of men by the door, as swiftly as the necessary caution would allow; Catherine, however, kept close at her side, and linked her arm too firmly within her friend's to be torn asunder by any common effort of a struggling assembly.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Though I made no further observation of her at the moment, I may mention here what I did not discover until afterwards, namely, that she was one of a series of protegees whom my aunt had taken into her service expressly to educate in a renouncement of mankind, and who had generally completed their abjuration by marrying the baker.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle; and twelve years had transformed the fine-looking, well-grown Miss Hamilton, in all the glow of health and confidence of superiority, into a poor, infirm, helpless widow, receiving the visit of her former protegee as a favour; but all that was uncomfortable in the meeting had soon passed away, and left only the interesting charm of remembering former partialities and talking over old times.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Fairfax found you to train it; but now you know that it is the illegitimate offspring of a French opera-girl, you will perhaps think differently of your post and protegee: you will be coming to me some day with notice that you have found another place—that you beg me to look out for a new governess, &c.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)