tutelar

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TU'TELAR TU'TELARY, adjective [Latin tutelaris, supra.] Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as tutelary genii; tutelary goddesses.
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