Definition of "tutelar" [tu•te•lar]

• Serving as a guardian; protective; tutelary. (adjective)
• One that is tutelary. (noun)

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• "Those which they call their tutelar deities shall be no protection to them."
• "Note: 1 The Americans sometimes called their tutelar saint Tamenay, a corruption of the name of the renowned chief here introduced."
• "* The Americans sometimes called their tutelar saint"