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protector
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Word definitions for protector in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protector \Pro*tect"or\, n. [L.: cf. F. protecteur.] One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron. For the world's protector shall be known. --Waller. (Eng. Hist.) One having the care ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French protector (14c., Modern French protecteur ) and directly from Late Latin protector , agent noun from protegere (see protection ). Related: Protectoral .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who cares for persons or property [syn: defender , guardian , shielder ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Protector may refer to: Protector (title) , a title or part of various historical titles of heads of state and others in authority, especially: Lord Protector , two high positions in the history of the British political system a Regent for an English or ...
Usage examples of protector.
The legendary Archimage he sought was an ancient, the protector and guardian of the Mountain Folk from the days of the Vanished Ones.
In days long gone, when the Mountain Folk were sore perplexed, they sought counsel of the Archimage, the White Lady, she who is the guardian and protector of all Folk.
Then I return to my lost world--to the whistling, dry-leaved, thin oaks that are not these giant ones--to the stony little hillsides and treacherous river-pits that are not these secure pastures--to the sharp scents that are not these scents--to the companionship of poor Pluton and Dis--to the Street of the Fountain up which marches to meet me, as when I was a rude little puppy, my friend, my protector, my earliest adoration, Monsieur le Vicomte Bouvier de Brie.
He could begin to see his big neighbor not as an extortionist but as a powerful protector of their common interests.
Moon suit out of the car, and hauled it on: first the cooling garment, then the pressure layer, and finally the white micrometeorite protector and his blue lunar overshoes.
He probably would never have emigrated to America had it not been for Morgenstern, his other great protector, dead now these six months.
It was very distressed to learn that the bureaucracy it had served had become the tool of a dictatorship, and was completely in favor of overthrowing the Protector, provided that it could be done with very little bloodshed.
The protectee was trying to kill the protectors, thinking they were the people peelers.
Moonsong, for all her innocence and kindness, was one of the protectees of their little group, not one of the protectors.
Outsiders in the tribe must have a protector, and so I claim protectorship over her by right of conquest.
Their first demand was to be conducted to the Lord Protector of England, so they called Adrian, though he had long discarded the empty title, as a bitter mockery of the shadow to which the Protectorship was now reduced.
The navvys being eaten as they cried for their distant protector were no less an ancient enemy than the Rattler which digested them.
The direction of the entire government was rested in Appius through the favour of the commons, and he had assumed a demeanour so new, that from a severe and harsh reviler of the people, he became suddenly a protector of the commons, and a candidate for popular favour.
Teresa showed to him that she was a worthy daughter of Eve, and he returned to the forest, pausing several times on his way, under the pretext of saluting his protectors.
Joseph of Arimathea, protector of the sangrail, who founded the Abbey of Glastonbury, drove his staff into the ground here on Wearyall Hill, and the staff took root.