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What (who) is Tutelary - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Tutelary (disambiguation)

Tutelary         
·adj Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses.
tutelary         
a.
Tutelary deity         
  • The [[mural crown]] of [[Cybele]] represents the walls of the city she protects
  • Thai]] [[spirit house]] for the ''Chao Thi'' in front of a car dealership in [[Bangkok]]
  • Stone doors of a tomb of the period of the Northern Dynasties to Tʻang Dynasty, excavated in Ching-pien County of the city of Yü-lin, Shensi Province. It shows two figures with tridents as the guardian deities of the tomb.
  • Lararium depicting tutelary deities of the house: the ancestral Genius (center) flanked by two Lares, with a guardian serpent below
DEITY OR SPIRIT WHO IS A GUARDIAN, PATRON OR PROTECTOR OF A PARTICULAR PLACE
Tutelary spirit; Patron deity; Patron god; Patron goddess; Patron God; Patron Goddess; Patron deities; Patron gods; Patron Deity; Patron Deities; Patron Gods; Town god; Tutelary genius; Tutelary guardian; Tutelary deities; City God; Tutelary god; Tutelary goddess; Chao Thi; City goddess; Tutelary spirits; City god; Guardian deity; Protector deity; Tutelar
A tutelary () (also tutelar) is a deity or a spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation. The etymology of "tutelary" expresses the concept of safety and thus of guardianship.

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Tutelary

Tutelary may refer to:

  • Patron saint, or tutelary saint
  • Tutelary deity
Examples of use of Tutelary
1. His children and personal friends form for him the entire human race ... while above them rises an immense and tutelary power, that of the state". The message of the government‘s latest fusillade of initiatives is that local leadership is "too cumbersome, too remote from reality". It means variant standards and a loss of central command.
2. Within the context of the linguistic science I was also explaining to women the meaning of "Men are the tutelary guardians of womens interests and welfare [Koran verse]." Men and women might think that this means "dominance over women," because standing up for those who are sitting down is known in the language in Arabic standing up and being a guardian are of the same root however, women are not sitting down out of feebleness, but because they are either giving birth or bringing up children, and men with their muscles stand up, come and go, and serve; for instance, the waiter who serves us in a restaurant is standing up for us.