What is "protectorship"

Usage examples of "protectorship".

Outsiders in the tribe must have a protector, and so I claim protectorship over her by right of conquest.

England would reap from his Protectorship, to deprive my countrymen of such a blessing, if he consent to bestow it on them.

The way in which Adrian had received his project for setting him up as a candidate for the Protectorship, and his replies, had already awakened in his mind, the view of the subject which we were now discussing.

I have heard him called inconstant of purpose--when he deserted, for the sake of love, the hope of sovereignty, and when he abdicated the protectorship of England, men blamed his infirmity of purpose.

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.

It cooled them sufficiently to let him place the duchess under the protectorship of Mr.

Its status shifted recently to Federate protectorship because of a conflict over a Federate colony world, VeeRon.

Only once did he exercise the judicial powers that his Protectorship carried with it: he arrested and summarily condemned to a month in gaol a young Greek who, in a grammatical debate where he was acting as chairman, tried to defy his authority as such.

Sejanus went to the Palace to congratulate Castor on his protectorship and found him in his study with Livilla.

She was under his protectorship, otherwise he would not have alluded to the observance of class distinctions.

As a sovereign government under the protectorship of the Interstellar Federacy .

Places like the Protectorship of Grayson, or the Caliphate of Zanzibar, or the Princedom of Alizon all boasted open, hereditary aristocracies and were, or could readily be made to appear to be, autocracies.

Amidst the thick cloud of bigotry and ignorance which overspread the nation during the commonwealth and protectorship, there were a few sedate philosophers, who, in the retirement of Oxford, cultivated their reason, and established conferences for the mutual communication of their discoveries in physics and geometry.

Henry, and fixed the continuance of the protectorship to the majority of his son Edward, who was vested with the usual dignities of prince of Wales, duke of Cornwall, and earl of Chester.

Cruelly punished during the Albigensian Crusade, later and for a long time subject to the English and almost wholly given over to heretical beliefs, it would support only with constraint the protectorship of the Crown of France.