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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

... big trees are sacred to the Monos, who call them "woh-woh-nau," a word formed in imitation of the hoot of the owl. The owl is the guardian spirit and the god of the big trees. Bad luck comes to those who cut down the big trees, or shoot at an owl, or shoot in the ...

— Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest • Katharine Berry Judson

... Rachel that this thing was going further than it should. To be set up as a kind of guardian spirit to the Zulus had seemed a very good joke, and naturally appealed to the love of power which is common to women. But when it involved, at any rate in the eyes of that people, dominion over her own parents, the joke was, she felt, becoming serious. So ...

— The Ghost Kings • H. Rider Haggard

... of Arabia," said the spectral figure, waving a sceptre fashioned like a palm-tree, "the guardian spirit of the land which governs the world; for its power lies neither in the sword nor in the shield, for these pass away, but in ideas which are divine. All the thoughts of every nation come from a higher power than man, but the thoughts of Arabia come directly ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol III • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... guardian spirit follows me in that shape; a foreknowing woman told me so. It is my death-omen! I am death-fated!" His knees gave way under him so that he sank to the ground and cowered there, wringing ...

— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

... "Some guardian spirit must have interposed to preserve us," replied Alizon; "for such only could have successfully combated with the evil beings from whom we have ...

— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

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