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Another word for protector

protector Synonyms

protector

n.

champion, defender, patron, sponsor, safeguard, benefactor, supporter, advocate, partisan, guardian angel, guard, shield, bulwark; guide, philosopher, friend; Maecenas, abettor, savior, stand-by, promoter, mediator, friend at court, counsel, second, backer, upholder, sympathizer, tower of strength in time of need, tutelary, genius, big brother*, big sister*, angel*, cover*, front*; see also guardian.

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Another word for protector

noun

A person or special body of persons assigned to provide protection or keep watch over, for example:
guard, lookout, picket, sentinel, sentry, ward, watch. See awareness, safety
The act or a means of defending:
defense, guard, preservation, protection, safeguard, security, shield, ward. See attack

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Without your protector, you'll never be welcomed at the Council.
Even Kris, the protector of mankind.
Maybe you should become the protector of humanity.
The Protector, however, did not live to witness the final triumph of his undertaking, which gave to England, as he had wished," the mastery of those seas,"ensuring the English colonies against Spanish attacks, and being maintained and followed up at the Restoration.
During this reign the work of the Reformation made rapid progress, the sympathies both of the Protector and of the young king being decidedly Protestant.

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