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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tutelage
noun
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▪ In summer and autumn embroidery courses under the tutelage of Jocelyn James are held.
▪ Under his generous tutelage, she was developing a narcissistic interest in herself.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tutelage

Tutelage \Tu"te*lage\, n. [L. tutela protection, fr. tutus safe, fr. tueri to watch, defend. Cf. Tuition.]

  1. The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage.

    The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy.
    --Macaulay.

  2. The state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed.
    --V. Knox.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tutelage

"guardianship," c.1600, from -age + Latin tutela "a watching, keeping, safeguard, protection," from variant past participle stem of tueri "watch over" (see tutor (n.)). Meaning "instruction" first appeared 1857.

Wiktionary
tutelage

n. 1 The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage. 2 The state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed.

WordNet
tutelage
  1. n. teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) [syn: tuition, tutorship]

  2. attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard" [syn: care, charge, guardianship]

Usage examples of "tutelage".

Roman jurisprudence has pronounced, that the charge of tutelage should constantly attend the emolument of succession.

We study all the spells that have been written, under the wise tutelage of a Master Evocator, and commit those spells to memory.

First Transcendence, many millennia ago, under the tutelage of Lithian Sophotech.

But Wulfgar, under the tutelage of an old sea dog named Mirky, was doing a masterful job.

I was without firearms, I still had ample protection in Nobs, who evidently had learned something of Caspakian hunt rules under the tutelage of Du-seen or some other Galu, and of course a great deal more by experience.

Also there were Saturday-night dance classes, socially mandatory, between the two schools, held in our gymnasium under the tutelage of Miss Something-or-Other, where, in respective taffeta dresses and dark suits, we learned the fox-trot, the waltz, the rhumba, and the Mexican hat dance.

There was almost hysterical speculation over the possibility that Earth would be offered tutelage by the mighty Ryke scientists.

Far from requiring further tutelage and inspiration from the West, the Japanese now stand among the leaders in international architecture, and architecture has become an aspect of Japanese culture that has exerted great influence on the world outside Japan.

Already I had delayed too long, for he was rising twenty, and outgrowing his tutelage.

And the missions, instead of following servilely in the track of bloody conquest to assume the tutelage of subjugated and enslaved races, were to share with the soldier and the trader the perilous adventures of exploration, and not so much to be supported and defended as to be themselves the support and protection of the settlements, through the influence of Christian love and self-sacrifice over the savage heart.

Others in attendance were Francois Duchene, whose mentor, Jean Monet Duchenes, ran the Trilateral Commission under the tutelage of H.

Under the tutelage of John Appassionata, he asked that he and his sister be baptized in the Catholic cathedral as Roman Catholics.

It was really marvellous the progress made by Grindley junior, under the tutelage of Helvetia Appleyard.

I supplicated Ngai, or whatever deity had tutelage over this ghostly dimension.

Last fall, Ven had been certain that the bear would return to claim it and he had prepared himself to defend it, for under Bellona's tutelage he was already a deft hand with a small bow.