tutelage

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TU'TELAGE, noun [from Latin tutela, protection, from tueor, to defend.] 1. Guardianship; protection; applied to the person protecting; as, the king's right of seignory and tutelage 2. State of being under a guardian.
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