different between guardian vs tutelary

English

Etymology

From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Anglo-Norman guardein, from Old French *guardian, gardein, garden, *gardenc, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????di.?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????d??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d??n

Noun

guardian (plural guardians)

1. Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
2. (law) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
3. (law) A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
4. A superior in a Franciscan monastery.
5. (video games) A major or final enemy; boss.

Derived terms

• guardian angel
• guardianship
• guard

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????? (g?dian)

Translations

Anagrams

• Grauniad

Middle French

Etymology

Old French garden, from the verb guarder.

Noun

guardian m (plural guardians)

1. guardian; protector

English

Alternative forms

• tutelarie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin t?t?l?rius (“guardian”), from t?t?la (“tutelage, guardianship; dependent, client”) + -?rius (“suffix denoting an agent of use”); analysable as tutelar +? -ary.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tju?t?l???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tut?l???/
• Hyphenation: tu?te?la?ry

Adjective

tutelary (comparative more tutelary, superlative most tutelary)

1. Relating to guardianship or protection.
   • 1840, Alexis de Tocqueville; Henry Reeve, transl., “What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear [book IV, chapter VI]”, in Democracy in America. Part the Second, the Social Influence of Democracy, volume II, London: Saunders & Otley, OCLC 557772461; republished as Phillip Bradley, editor, Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville: The Henry Reeve Text as Revised by Francis Bowen Now Further Corrected and Edited with Introduction, Editorial Notes, and Bibliographies by Phillips Bradley, volume II, 1st Borzoi edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945, OCLC 916442432, page 319:

     Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to be free. As they cannot destroy either the one or the other of these contrary propensities, they strive to satisfy them both at once. They devise a sole, tutelary, and all-powerful form of government, but elected by the people. They combine the principle of centralization and that of popular sovereignty; this gives them a respite: they console themselves for being in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians.

   • 1850, William Wordsworth, “Book Eighth. Retrospect.—Love of Nature Leading to Love of Man.”, in The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem, London: Edward Moxon, OCLC 1405711; republished as The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, authorized edition, London: Edward Moxon, Son, and Co., 44 Dover Street, Piccadilly, 1869, OCLC 727050730, page 491:

     [T]he goat-herd lived / As calmly, underneath the pleasant brows / Of cool Lucretilis, where the pipe was heard / Of Pan, Invisible God, thrilling the rocks / With tutelary music, from all harm / The fold protecting.
2. Of or pertaining to a guardian.
3. Having the qualities of a tutor.

Synonyms

• tutelar (adjective)
• tutelaric (rare)

Derived terms

• tutelarity
• tutelary deity

Translations

Noun

tutelary (plural tutelaries)

1. (religion, chiefly paganism) A deity or spirit serving as a guardian or protector of a place, person, culture, etc.; a tutelar, a tutelary deity.
   • 1962, Jack Goody, Death, Property and the Ancestors: A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa, London: Tavistock Publications, OCLC 8211112; republished as Death, Property and the Ancestors: A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the Lodagaa of West Africa, London: Routledge, 2004, ISBN 978-0-415-32984-2, page 210:

     A tutelary is not a special sort of spirit or shrine; the word refers either to a clan shrine, which is theoretically the same for all members, or to the specific shrine or ancestor indicated by a diviner as being a man's own guardian spirit. Each individual has such a tutelary, but will not be aware of its name unless a diviner has been consulted.

Synonyms

• tutelar (noun)
• tutelary deity

Translations

Related terms

• tutelage
• tutor

Further reading

• tutelary (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia