Dictionary entry

Tutelar

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Tu″te‐lar (?), Tu″te‐la‐ry (?), } a. [L. tutelaris: cf. F. tutélaire. See Tutelage.] Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses.

This, of all advantages, is the greatest... the most tutelary of morals. Landor.