patronage
/ˈpeɪtɹənɪd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To support by being a patron of.
- To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize
He/she/it patronages · Past patronaged · Past participle patronaged · -ing form patronaging
Verb forms
- Base form
- patronage
- He/she/it
- patronages
- Past
- patronaged
- Past participle
- patronaged
- -ing form
- patronaging
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“Why, yes, he is actually insolent over the matter—has already offered me his patronage, as if he were a grand personage, and proffered me a loan of money, as though he were a banker.”
The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life, and therefore man in his middle age is fond of work, devoted to labor, and resolute to amass wealth and to husband his resources.
--“My mind, however, is now made up on the subject; for, having received ordination at Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her Ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.
Darcy had considerable patronage in the church, and his cousin could have none at all.
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