different between guardianship vs tutelary

English

Etymology

guardian +? -ship

Noun

guardianship (plural guardianships)

1. The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity.
   • 1917, Maulana Muhammad Ali (translator), Qu’ran The Women, 4.23

     Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters and your sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts and brothers' daughters and sisters' daughters and your mothers that have suckled you and your foster-sisters and mothers of your wives and your step-daughters who are in your guardianship, (born) of your wives to whom you have gone in, but if you have not gone in to them, there is no blame on you (in marrying them), and the wives of your sons who are of your own loins and that you should have two sisters together, except what has already passed; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

   • 1986 Philip Bean, "Mental Disorder and Legal Control" - Page 84

     An application for guardianship must be founded on two medical recommendations, the procedure being similar to an application for admission for treatment.

Synonyms

• tutelarity

Translations

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