protector
/pɹəˈtɛktɚ/ sustantivo B2En español: protector, protectora, valedor
- Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
- A headmate who primarily fronts, or otherwise protects the system, in situations where the system is at risk of psychological harm.
- A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
- One who prevents interference.
- A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.
- A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.
Plural protectors
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After their departure, Fernand, who had now again become the friend and protector of Mercédès, led the girl to her home, while some friends of Dantès conducted his father, nearly lifeless, to the Allées de Meilhan.
“Ah, ah,” murmured he, “is Dantès then a member of some Carbonari society, that his protector thus employs the collective form?
Napoleon would, doubtless, have deprived Villefort of his office had it not been for Noirtier, who was all powerful at court, and thus the Girondin of ’93 and the Senator of 1806 protected him who so lately had been his protector.
“I am no longer surprised at my detention,” murmured Dantès, “since my only protector is removed.”
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