The word 'tutelary' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an adjective that means "having the role of a guardian or protector." Example: "The wise old owl was seen as the village's tutelary figure, guiding and protecting the community from harm."
VISITORS to Great Dixter, an old, rambling, timber-framed house among the steep woods and pastures of the High Weald, on the borders of Kent and Sussex in the south of England, would find it haunted by several tutelary spirits.
For Mr Thaksin and the heir-apparent personify the end of the old tutelary democracy and the beginning of Thailand's political future: a European-style constitutional monarchy with the king as titular head of state.
Their intervention looks more interested in reviving a system of tutelary democracy, in which a bunch of royalist elites control the state, though the new regime denies it.
Brazil's democratic constitution gives the army vague tutelary powers.
His advisers, admirers of Franco's fascist dictatorship in Spain, wrote a constitution that gave the army a permanent tutelary role.
Back then the generals thought they could marginalise Mr Thaksin as a political force and encourage a return to a tutelary democracy guided by the establishment around the king.
The hide was usually covered with figures of deities, tutelary spirits of the noiade, and otherworld localities, painted on with the juice of alder bark.
In Japan the sun goddess, Amaterasu, who played an important role in ancient mythology and was considered to be the supreme ruler of the world, was the tutelary deity of the imperial clan, and to this day the sun symbols represent the Japanese state.
The being became a tutelary guide, instructing an individual in curing and sources of power.
They are associated with other deities of the house, such as Vesta, and the name was sometimes used interchangeably with that of the Lares, any of various tutelary deities.
