conservator
Noun
Meaning
One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.
An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff.
One who has an official charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation, community, or estate.
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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
A conservator reports to the court that appointed them, and is monitored by the supervising judicial court in the county in which the conservatee permanently resides.
Britney’s mother, Lynne Spears, however, supports Britney’s decision to remove her dad as her conservator and have Bessemer Trust as her sole conservator.
His father died in 1651 and left his inheritance to Pascal and Jacqueline, for whom Pascal acted as her conservator.
I am thus a conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator."