tutelage

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tutelage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

From Latin tutela (“a watching, guardianship, protection”), from tueri (“to watch, guard”). See tuition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːtɪlɪdʒ/, /ˈtʃuːtɪlɪdʒ/, /ˈtuːtɪlɪdʒ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːtələdʒ/, /ˈtʃuːtələdʒ/, /ˈtuːtələdʒ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːtlɪdʒ/, /ˈtʃuːtlɪdʒ/, /ˈtuːtlɪdʒ/, /-ədʒ/

Noun

tutelage (countable and uncountable, plural tutelages)

1. The act of guarding, protecting, or guiding; guardianship; protection

   the king's right of seigniory and tutelage

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, “Chapter”, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, page 23:

     The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy.

2. The state of being under a guardian or a tutor; care or protection enjoyed.
3. Instruction; teaching; guidance.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 174:

     Kirk has attempted to write the definitive explanation of myth, but he too has overlooked von Dechend and, therefore, cannot make much sense concerning "Inanna's Descent into the Nether World." But when from von Dechend's tutelage we realize that Inanna is identified with the planet Venus, then we understand that there is more going on in the myth than a dramatization of the empty storehouse in winter.

Synonyms

• guardianship
• protection
• (instruction, guidance): tutorship

Related terms

• tutelar
• tutelary
• tuition
• tutor
• tutorial

Translations

The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection

• Bulgarian: настойничество (bg) n (nastojničestvo)
• French: tutelle (fr)
• German: Bevormundung (de) f
• Greek: κηδεμονία (el) f (kidemonía)
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• Latin: tūtēla f
• Russian: опеку́нство (ru) n (opekúnstvo)
• Spanish: tutela (es) f

The state of being under a guardian or a tutor

• German: Vormundschaft (de) f, Obhut (de) f
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Instruction; teaching; guidance

• German: Anleitung (de) f
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Further reading

• “tutelage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “tutelage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.