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#1 2007-09-08 13:56:45

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1224

'titular spirit' for 'tutelary spirit'

More a malaprop than an eggcorn, but I’m beginning to wonder if there is indeed such a thing as a ‘titular spirit’ as it is surprisingly common. A ‘tutelary spirit’ is a minor god or spirit or genius loci who guards or watches over a person or place. ‘Titular’ relates to titles or status rather than protection. Neither word is common but neither are they so obscure that they could be too easily confused?

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www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=179341164653200 – 28k – Cached

... unnerving to re-witness, in glorious Ektachrome, 29 minutes and 15 seconds of July 1967, the Summer of Love, Allen Ginsberg as its titular spirit. ...
blogs.guardian.co.uk/arts/author/iain_sinclair/ – 26k – Cached

... was writing The Spectre all inhabitants of Vlatava, with the exception of Vertigo and the current president, were murdered by the the titular spirit. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlatava_(comics) – 14k – Cached

Here Tiffany unwittingly attracts the attention of the titular spirit of Winter when she interrupts the Dance of the Seasons-and must enlist the aid of the …
search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780060890315&z=y – 39k – Cached

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