Meaning of tutelarity | Babel Free

Definitions

The condition or state of being tutelar or tutelary; guardianship, protection.

Examples

“Now we will consider reasons or arguments against astrology. […] The first is from the concession of the Friends of Astrology. They grant that either of these four may prevent the predictions of astrology; namely, either the prudence of a moral wise man, or the piety of a godly man, or the tutelarity of angels, or the providence of God over-ruling all things; […]”

“The identification of the Bardic Crist Celi with the Bardic Moses, with a view to blending both religions in one scheme of magic, has been illustrated in the just cited pages of the Neo-Druidic Heresy. […] The words Gwledig Moysen shew us that the Moses of this spurious Israel was himself its tutelary deity; and he is not different from the Crist Gwledig. But that epithet designates the Being spoken of, in respect of his local tutelarity, and not of his more general attributes as a Person of the Trindawd.”

“They [bankers] would do what has been done by the Bank of France—buy bullion at a premium, on the approach of danger, and keep peril at a safe and respectable distance. Any expenditure that might be incurred for that purpose would be small indeed when contrasted with the immense loss and suffering caused by the present system, and the continual fear in which the public now live of some new crisis—because it has been out of one and into another for a long period now; and that will be the case hereafter, until we have no interval to gather strength, and recruit for the next struggle with Mammon, or Moloch, or whatever other name of evil import belongs to the "Tutelarity" of Lombard-street and its precincts.”

“A clear attempt by the outgoing authoritarian regime to establish the institutional and organizational basis for exercising military tutelarity over the democratic process occurred in the Chilean transition.”

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