protégén.
/ˈprɒtᵻʒeɪ/, U.S. /ˈproʊdəˌʒeɪ/ A person (sometimes spec. a boy or man) who receives the protection or patronage of another; a person who is guided and supported by someone with greater experience or influence. Also in extended use.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > person or thing in another's care > one under another's care or protection
warda1500
tutage?1606
protégée1782
protégé1786
protectee1807
1786 Microcosm No. 30. 348 Many there will be who will ungenerously cavil at the size of my proteges [sc. books].
1787 Daily Universal Reg. 9 July 2/2 Offended at the slight thus passed on his protegé.
1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda III. xxv. 81 He may be a protégé of lady Anne Percival.
1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 206 An immense tray of dried fruits..which one of his hundred and fifty protégés had sent him.
1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele II. 180 I foresee the..hard compulsory labour which the negromaniac will have brought upon his African protégé.
1955 Times 2 May 8/6 With Formosa becoming a United Nations protégé and the people of Formosa, by plebiscite or otherwise, deciding their own future.
1989 G. Daly Pre-Raphaelites in Love vi. 279 Ruskin submitted his protégé's name for election to the Old Water-Colour Society.
2004 Independent 4 Nov. (Review section) 7/3 Williams plays an ice-skating coach who finds love when he is forced to compete after his protégé is injured.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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