# tutelarity
## English
### Etymology

From tutelar +‎ -ity.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌtjuːtəˈlæɹɪti/
* (General American) IPA: /ˌtutəˈlæɹədi/
* Rhymes: -æɹɪti
* Hyphenation: tu‧te‧lar‧i‧ty

### Noun

tutelarity
* The condition or state of being tutelar or tutelary; guardianship, protection.
** 1650, Nathanael Homes [i.e., Nathaniel Holmes], Dæmonologie, and Theologie: The First, the Malady, Demonstrating the Diabolicall Arts, and Devillish Hearts of Men. The Second, the Remedy: Demonstrating, God a Rich Supply of All Good, London: Printed by Tho: Roycroft, and are to be sold by Jo: Martin, and Jo: Ridley, at the Castle in Fleet-street, neer Ram-Alley, OCLC 607051215; republished as Therese C. McMahon, editor, Demonology and Theology, Crossville, Tn.: Puritan Publications, 2014, ISBN 978-1-62663-089-5, page 151:
    Now we will consider reasons or arguments against astrology. […] The first is from the concession of the Friends of Astrology. They grant that either of these four may prevent the predictions of astrology; namely, either the prudence of a moral wise man, or the piety of a godly man, or the tutelarity of angels, or the providence of God over-ruling all things; […]
** 1836, [Algernon Herbert], “Chapter II”, in Britannia after the Romans; being an Attempt to Illustrate the Religious and Political Revolutions of that Province in the Fifth and Succeeding Centuries, volume I, London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, 4, York Street, Covent Garden, →OCLC, footnote, page 63:The identification of the Bardic Crist Celi with the Bardic Moses, with a view to blending both religions in one scheme of magic, has been illustrated in the just cited pages of the Neo-Druidic Heresy. […] The words Gwledig Moysen shew us that the Moses of this spurious Israel was himself its tutelary deity; and he is not different from the Crist Gwledig. But that epithet designates the Being spoken of, in respect of his local tutelarity, and not of his more general attributes as a Person of the Trindawd.
** 1857 November, “The Present Panic”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXIV, Edinburgh: William Tait, →OCLC, page 644:They [bankers] would do what has been done by the Bank of France—buy bullion at a premium, on the approach of danger, and keep peril at a safe and respectable distance. Any expenditure that might be incurred for that purpose would be small indeed when contrasted with the immense loss and suffering caused by the present system, and the continual fear in which the public now live of some new crisis—because it has been out of one and into another for a long period now; and that will be the case hereafter, until we have no interval to gather strength, and recruit for the next struggle with Mammon, or Moloch, or whatever other name of evil import belongs to the "Tutelarity" of Lombard-street and its precincts.
** 1990 December, Julio Samuel Valenzuela, Democratic Consolidation in Post-transitional Settings: Notion, Process, and Facilitating Conditions (Working Paper (Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies); 150), Notre Dame, Ind.: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, →OCLC, page 7:A clear attempt by the outgoing authoritarian regime to establish the institutional and organizational basis for exercising military tutelarity over the democratic process occurred in the Chilean transition.

#### Related terms

* tutelage
* tutelar
* tutelaric (rare)
* tutelary
* tutor