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noun

Patron n.

One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender. "Patron of my life and liberty." "The patron of true holiness."

(Rom. Antiq.)

(a)

A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.

(b)

A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.

(c)

An advocate or pleader. "Let him who works the client wrong Beware the patron's ire."

One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.

(Eccl. Law) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice. (Eng.)

A guardian saint. called also patron saint.

(Naut.) See Padrone, 2.

Patrons of Husbandry, the grangers. See Granger, 2.

verb

Patron v. t. To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor. (Obs.)

adjective

Patron adj. Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.

Patron saint (R. C. Ch.), a saint regarded as the peculiar protector of a country, community, church, profession, etc., or of an individual.

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Etymology of 'Patron'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Patron" Quotes from Famous Books

... contribute some greater sacrifice of comfort to the Cause. Within the first week over two thirds of the shops had closed—the greater number bearing on their shuttered windows the notice "Pour cause de mobilisation," which showed that the "patron" and staff were at the front. But enough remained open to satisfy every ordinary want, and the closing of the others served to prove how much one could do without. Provisions were as cheap and plentiful as ever, though for a while it was easier to buy food ...

— Fighting France - From Dunkerque to Belport • Edith Wharton

... small assessments? Where else would he have been suffered to attend and address the exhibition days of schools and colleges? where else, in God's green earth, have taken his pick of restaurants, ransacked the bill of fare, and departed scathless? They tell me he was even an exacting patron, threatening to withdraw his custom when dissatisfied; and I can believe it, for his face wore an expression distinctly gastronomical. Pinkerton had received from this monarch a cabinet appointment; I have seen the brevet, ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... gondoliers who kept the mariegole were not precisely angels, and the part of their creed which they religiously upheld was a deathless antagonism to the rival faction which won more lamps and pretty gifts for the patron madonnas of the various traghetti than any ...

— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

... whose cloudy shores are perhaps concealing in their recesses the future lords of Constantinople. We look towards that point of the compass, and think of Sebastopol. The great lords of Theudemir's court, who brought the young Theodoric to his new patron, may have looked northwards too, remembering the sagas about the mighty Hermanric, who dwelt where now the Russians dwell, and the fateful march of the terrible Huns across the shallows ...

— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin

... disposal of which there is now no adequate law. The settler must become a consumer of this timber, whether he lives upon the plain or engages in working the mines. Hence every man becomes either a trespasser himself or knowingly a patron of trespassers. ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

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