averters

Against fearful Dreams, Redness, &c. When you have used all good means and helps of alteratives, averters, diminutives, yet there will be still certain accidents to be corrected and amended, as waking, fearful dreams, flushing in the face to some ruddiness, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

"They are holy angels upon the earth, authors of good, averters of evil, the guardians of speech-gifted men"?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Beneficent, averters of ills, guardians of mortal men.

The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

O ye Gods, may ye be averters of these ills, and grant to the children of Œdipus some means of agreement.

The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

Most of the amulets, even of modern times, the lucky trinkets, the averters of the "Evil Eye," the practices and devices for securing good luck in love and sport, in curing bodily ills or mental distress, in attaining material prosperity, or a continuation of existence after death, are survivals of this ancient and persistent striving after those objects which our earliest forefathers called collectively the "givers of life".

The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith

But in Bombay they say that their favourite and only living gods are their bread-winners and averters of hunger, the drum, the rope and the balancing-pole.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

Beneficent averters of ills, guardians of mortal men. '

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

'They are holy angels upon the earth, authors of good, averters of evil, the guardians of speech-gifted men'?

The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

'But now that fate has closed over this race They are holy demons upon the earth, Beneficent, averters of ills, guardians of mortal men.'

Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

When sitting in court holding a levee, the king invariably has in attendance several women, Wabandwa, evil-eye averters or sorcerers.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845