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Both of them have had a certain tutelary role in our lives.

She is considered to be the tutelary deity of the community.

"Perhaps the tutelary deity had second thoughts on the matter."

In particular this is associated with active learning and concepts of tutelary authority.

The park has 106 hectares and also is one of the seven tutelary hills in the city.

I am the spirit of this island, the tutelary genius."

It is worshiped as the tutelary deity of the town.

This is similar to Tutelary deity worshiped in other parts of world.

An oath by the emperor's genius (tutelary spirit) seemed simple enough.

Maybe the Lance of Passion was once a tutelary but time has taken that away.

He became a tutelary patron figure amongst some of the region's cattle-keeping groups.

The concept is similar to ideas of personal tutelary spirits that are very common in many ancient and traditional cultures.

Milan was poorly provided in this respect: it had no tutelary martyrs.

She was also the tutelary deity of music and love, usually depicted with a drum or rattle.

When the standard was a tutelary deity and whatnot.

She elevated to the rank of tutelary divinity of the city.

She is the tutelary deity to several Sumerian leaders.

Chinese folk religion, both past and present, includes a myriad of tutelary deities.

A tutelary spirit guides, helps or protects individuals, lineages and nations.

The shrine is the sacred icon, the tutelary deity of the city and the province.

According to the farmers' almanacs, the tutelary deity of the month was Neptune.

He preserves a tutelary function on this universe as the gatekeeper of Heaven.

This bird became the tutelary goddess of the family, henceforth held sacred by all its descendants.

All about Kali, one of their tutelary goddesses," said the book salesman.

"Or it could be just that old spore overload acting on the tutelary gland again."

Osiris became after that the tutelar deity of the Egyptians.

Both tutelary and tutelar can be used as either a noun or an adjective.

Boris and Gleb - tutelar saints of the town.

Each nation has its tutelar deity.

The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods.

Chorus of Babylonians: "Ye tutelar gods of our empire, look down"

The idea of national tutelar deities was at that time deeply rooted in the consciousness of all the peoples of Western Asia.

Falsehood was punishable by the offender being put to oath in a temple, and the invocation of tutelar deities and gods.

He is the tutelar God of the tribe of the Teutogens, and mostly worshiped in the north of the Empire.

The tutelar deity of each isle is likewise helpful, and by a particular form of wedge-shaped cloud on the horizon announces the coming of a ship.

Under the tutelar protection of their evening shadows the farther water lay, at the season of which I speak, like a divine child asleep, watched by an eternal nurse.

The "Eternal" was no longer thought of as the only One God of the whole universe, but as the tutelar deity of the Israelitish tribe.

In fresh myrtle my blade I'll entwine, Like Harmodious, the gallant and good, When he made at the tutelar shrine A libation of Tyranny's blood.

A tutelary (also tutelar) is a deity or spirit who is a guardian, patron or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture or occupation.

He was received at Messrs. MacVittie and MacFin's counting-house in the Gallowgate, with something like the devotion a Catholic would pay to his tutelar saint.

I do commend my cause to God, the Virgin, St. Denis of France and St. Alphege of England, And all the tutelar Saints of Canterbury.

An Other Part of his Work is interested in Kate Bush as a tutelar figure, as someone who has raised his interest into turntable, sound and music that he uses in some of his pieces.

The name of the tutelar deity of ROME was for this reason kept a most religious mystery; lest the enemies of the republic should be able, in the same manner, to draw him over to their service.

Few people discern that it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes from the man or the maid; that this identical hussy was a tutelar spirit in one house, and a haridan in the other.

A man who has undergone the Initiation known as "Kariocha"in the Lukumi/Santeria faith , also known as "making the Saint" (Hacer Santo in spanish) where his tutelar Deity is crowned over his head.