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guardian angel

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guardian angel
believed to protect a particular person. [Folklore: Misc.]
See : Angel

guardian angel
term for Christian namesake who watches over a young child. [Christianity: Misc.]


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My guardian angel is asleep At least he doth no vigil keep But far doth roam.
This, to my mother, was more than a duty; it was a necessity, a passion--remembering what she had suffered, and how she had been relieved--for her to act in her turn the guardian angel to the afflicted.
You, who pretend to understand everything, even the hidden sources of knowledge, -- and who enact the part of a guardian angel upon earth, and could not even find an antidote to a poison administered to a young girl
 
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