tutelary
- s providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding
tutelary gods
- The incumbent demanded reward for his tutelary role and went on to say that it was normal for such positions to be rewarded.
- After the fire incident, the investigators wanted to know who the tutelary figures of that show were.
- The peaks loomed over the valley as if they were the tutelary deities of the villages in the lowlands.