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TUTELARY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tutelary mean?
• TUTELARY (adjective)
The adjective TUTELARY has 1 sense:
1. providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding
Familiarity information: TUTELARY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding
Synonyms:
Context example:
tutelary gods
Similar:
protective (intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind)
Context examples
There he hangs, the tutelary angel of this house, she cried, pointing with a grand sweeping gesture to a painting upon the wall, which represented a very thin-faced, high-nosed gentleman with several orders upon his coat.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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