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Webster 1913 Edition
Tutelage
Tu′te-lage
(tū′tē̍-lā̍j; 48)
, Noun.
1.
The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection;
as, the king’s right of seigniory and
. tutelage
The childhood of the European nations was passed under the
tutelage
of the clergy. Macaulay.
2.
The state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed.
V. Knox.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tutelage
TU'TELAGE
,Noun.
1.
Guardianship; protection; applied to the person protecting; as, the king's right of seignory and tutelage.2.
State of being under a guardian.Definition 2024
tutelage
tutelage
English
Noun
tutelage (countable and uncountable, plural tutelages)
- The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection
- the king's right of seigniory and tutelage
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, “Chapter I”, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, page 23:
- The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy.
- The state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed.
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The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection