Protectory

Word PROTECTORY
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An institution providing for the welfare of homeless, destitute, or delinquent children. noun

An institution for the protection and training of destitute, vagrant, truant, or vicious children: the specific name of a Roman Catholic institution in New York city. noun

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The word "protectory" in example sentences

St.Ann. A protectory which was started at the same place is now at ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Mercy at Montabaur; in 1862, the diocesan protectory of Marienstatt; in 1850, the hospital of the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul at ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The district of which Baltimore has become the centre now contains 24 houses, the Brothers of which for the most part are engaged in gratuitous parochial schools; they also conduct five colleges; a protectory; and the foundations of the family of the late ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The brothers give special attention to the trade school of the protectory; printing, press-feeding, book-binding, baking, shoe-making, tailoring, plumbing, gas-fitting, and other trades are taught with excellent results. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Besides the institutions just mentioned there are numerous orphan asylums, industrial school, infant asylums, day homes and a protectory for boys to which is attached a boys 'industrial farm at Rutherford. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Michéle, the first protectory for youth, was founded at Rome in 1704 by Clement XI. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

I had strong sympathy with the men who carried on the protectory, and was quite willing to go as far as possible in aiding them, but was opposed to voting such a vast landed property belonging to the city into the hands of any church, and I fought the bill at all stages. ❋ Unknown (1905)

During one of the sessions there had appeared in the lobby an excellent man, Dr. Levi Silliman Ives, formerly Protestant Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, who, having been converted to Roman Catholicism, had become a layman and head of a protectory for Catholic children. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Abandoned at an early age, Davis grew up in New York’s Catholic protectory. ❋ Timothy M. Gay (2010)

In the gallery he found numbered and classified photographs; in the Bertillon bureau, finger prints; and in the records, what else he lacked of information -- as an urchin, so many years spent in the protectory; as a youth, so many years in the reformatory; as a man, a year on Blackwell's Island for a misdemeanour and a three-year term at Sing Sing for a felony; also he dug up the entry of an indictment yet standing on which trial had never been held for lack of proof to convict; finally a long list of arrests for this and that and the other thing, unproved. ❋ Unknown (1910)

24 May, 1875, in Newark, a protectory for boys about the same time at ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Institute in Detmold, a combined sewing school and protectory conducted by the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (from ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Flanagans "dealt with the school question" Bessy Conway "; with the trials of the Irish immigrant girl;" Aunt Honor's Keepsake "with the saving of the destitute Catholic children of New York for whom the great protectory was then founded. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

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