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tutelaries

tutelaries is the plural of tutelary.

Meaning of tutelary

Noun

tutelary (plural tutelaries)

  1. A deity or spirit serving as a guardian or protector of a place, person, culture, etc.; a tutelar, a tutelary deity.
    • The qualifications demanded in a tutelary are activity combined with power over the minor malignant devils. Thus most of the superior celestial Buddhas and Bodhisats may be, and are, tutelaries. But the favourite ones are the great demon-kings, […]1895, L[aurence] Austine Waddell, “Pantheon and Images”, in The Buddhism of Tibet: or Lamaism, with its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology, and in its Relation to Indian Buddhism, London: W. H....

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Questions about tutelaries

What is tutelaries the plural of?
Tutelaries is the plural of tutelary.

Words near tutelaries in the dictionary

  1. tutelage
  2. tutelages
  3. tutelar
  4. tutelaric
  5. tutelarie
  6. tutelaries
  7. tutelarily
  8. tutelarity
  9. tutelars
  10. tutelary
  11. tutelary deities

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