tutelar

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

tutelar(s = adj.all) custodial, tutelary - providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding; "daycare that is educational and not just custodial"; "a guardian angel"; "tutelary gods"

tutelar, a. [L. tutelaris: cf. F. tutélaire. See Tutelage.].

Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses. [1913 Webster]

"This, of all advantages, is the greatest . . . the most tutelary of morals." [1913 Webster]

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