Literary notes about Conservator (AI summary)
In literary contexts, the term "conservator" is employed to denote a guardian or custodian responsible for preserving and upholding various domains. It frequently appears in descriptions of legal or institutional authority where individuals are tasked with maintaining peace, property, or tradition, as when a judge-conservator is charged with ensuring justice or restoring order ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, authors use the term to illustrate roles that protect cultural or natural heritage, whether it is the caretaker of a museum or a forest ([4], [5], [6], [7]). The word also carries a broader metaphorical sense, representing figures who safeguard moral and artistic values or serve as stewards of community legacy ([8], [9], [10]).
- The archbishop treated those censures as invalid, for the judge-conservator’s jurisdiction did not extend to the trial of that question.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century - The judge-conservator ordered the archbishop to take back the acts made against the Society of Jesus, as they were a manifest injury.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century - There it is, "The mayor of the city, shall be its executive officer, and the conservator of its peace.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July - The Author is Conservator of Museum and Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons.
— from Pharisaism, Its Aim and Its Method by R. Travers (Robert Travers) Herford - The State owes him, if not the appointment, at least the honorary title, of Conservator of the Forests.
— from The Bird by Jules Michelet - His appointment as conservator of the Museum of Public Instruction was confirmed by order-in-council on the 6th of April, 1886.
— from A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time A Collection of Persons Distinguished in Professional and Political Life, Leaders in the Commerce and Industry of Canada, and Successful Pioneers - B Y HUGH CLEGHORN, M.D., F.L.S., Conservator of Forests, Madras Presidency.
— from Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 3 (of 3) Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England by Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir - A conservator, call me, if you please, Not a creator nor destroyer: one Who keeps the world safe.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert BrowningCambridge Edition by Robert Browning - As we have pointed out, religion is the great conservator of group values and group standards.
— from Ethics by John Dewey - The family, that great conservator of national virtue and strength, how can you hope to build it up in the midst of violence, debauchery, and excess?
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
