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providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding
- Thus, then, one of our own noble stamp, even a whaleman, is the tutelary guardian of England; and by good rights, we harpooneers of Nantucket should be enrolled in the most noble order of St. George.Chapters 82-84 — The Honour and Glory of Whaling; Jonah Historically Regarded; Pitchpoling (24% in)
There are no more uses of "tutelar" in Moby Dick.
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