† tutelen.

Forms: Also 1500s tutell, 1500s–1600s tutle, 1600s Scottish tutill.

Etymology: < Old French (also modern French) tutelle protection (14th cent. in Godefroy = Provençal, Spanish, Italian tutela ), or < Latin tūtēla : see tutelage n.

Obsolete.

Guardianship, protection; care of a ward; = tutelage n.

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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > one who looks after > guardian of minor or incapable person > office of

tutoryc1400

tutelec1420

curatory?1478

tuteleship1557

tutorship1559

curatorship1590

tutelage1605

tutorage1617

curature1618

pro-tutory1664

curacya1734

curation1749

conservatorship1871

tutelarship1875

c1420 J. Lydgate Ballad Our Lady 57 in Minor Poems (1911) I. 257 Of alle Cristen protectrix and tutele..To hem þat erryn, the path of her sequele.

1517 in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1875) XII. 38/1 Ȝe have sa usit ȝoure self tuiching the said tutele and regiment of oure soveran Lorde [etc.].

1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. a iiij^v The preservacion and tutell of the innocent and simple.

1579 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 158/2 Nwrist and brocht vp within our said Castell of striueling vndir his tutele and gouuernance.

1602 E. Bruce in Corr. Jas. VI (Camden) 46 Her nerrast kinsman..sould be inwest in the tutill and administration of her state.

1622 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 210 He seeks not that the children should remain under the tutle of women.

1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 20 They have the tutele of Pupills and Orphans when ther is no Gardian nominated in the Will of the Testator.

Derivatives

† tuteleship n. Obsolete the office or function of a guardian.

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