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/gˈɑrdiən spˈɪrət/ Listen

adjective

Guardian adj. Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care.

Feast of Guardian Angels (R. C. Ch.) a church festival instituted by Pope Paul V., and celebrated on October 2d.

Guardian angel.

(a)

The particular spiritual being believed in some branches of the Christian church to have guardianship and protection of each human being from birth.

(b)

Hence, a protector or defender in general.

Guardian spirit, in the belief of many pagan nations, a spirit, often of a deceased relative or friend, that presides over the interests of a household, a city, or a region.

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Etymology of 'Guardian spirit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Guardian spirit" Quotes from Famous Books

... Christianity that which threatened its own existence. The Christians declined to support the state religion; they even condemned it unsparingly as sinful and idolatrous. The Christians, moreover, would not worship the genius, or guardian spirit of the emperor, and would not burn incense before his statue, which stood in every town. Such a refusal to take what was really an oath of allegiance was regarded as an act of rebellion. These feelings of hostility to the Christians were strengthened ...

— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

... is represented as heroically consistent, except when given over for a moment to the malice of infernal emissaries. In her immediate reception of Helon as a husband, she is constant to a long cherished idea, and fulfills the design of her guardian spirit, or it would excite some wonder that Zophiel was worsted in such competition. It will be perceived upon a careful examination that the work is in admirable keeping, and that the entire conduct of its several persons bears a just relation ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 • Various

... North American Indians an animal revealed to the head of a tribe as the guardian spirit of it, and an object of sacred regard. ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... Daemon.]—The Genius or guardian spirit of the house has in this House become a Wrath, an 'Alastor' or 'Driver Astray.' See ...

— Agamemnon • Aeschylus

... seen, they closed the little window, and with a mute farewell to the sweet guardian spirit of the little place,—the girl who had loved her dolls, and so made herself dear to all other girls,—the three withdrew, and softly, reluctantly drew the sliding ...

— Hildegarde's Neighbors • Laura E. Richards

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