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Filled answer is this word (GUARDIAN).
Definitions
a person who cares for persons or property
Word origin
From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Old French guardein, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden. By surface analysis, guard + -ian.
Used in a sentence
“Thoſe who ought to be the guardians of propriety are often the perverters of it. Hence Accidence for Accidents, Prepoſtor for Prepoſitor and Conſtur for Conſtrue[…]”
“As your Senior Tutor, I am your moral guardian,’ he said at last. ‘A moral guardian yearns for an immoral ward and the Lord has provided.”
“Secret weak points of bosses/guardians.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Protector”8 letters
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