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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

... time, and great pain. She cannot amuse or employ herself in any way, and all these years has been as dependent on others for new thoughts, as for daily cares. Yet her mind has deepened, and her character refined, under those stern teachers, Pain and Gratitude, till she has become the patron saint of the village, and the muse of the village school-mistress. She has a peculiar aversion to egotism, and could not bear to have her mother enlarge upon ...

— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. II • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... advice was immediately followed; and the populace gave vent to a shout of triumph as the unfortunate freedman, scared by a new volley of missiles, retreated with ignominious expedition to the shelter of his patron's halls. ...

— Antonina • Wilkie Collins

... leading measures of the "new course," and he succeeded for ten years in retaining the confidence and affectionate regard of the most fickle and most despotic of masters. A man of the world and a patron of learning and art, he has enlisted all the graces and amenities of social life in the ...

— German Problems and Personalities • Charles Sarolea

... assuredly, never did man determine on entering the ministry with views more thoroughly disinterested than his. Patronage ruled supreme in the Scottish Establishment at the time; and my friend had no influence and no patron; but he could not see his way clear to join with the Evangelical Dissenters or the Secession; and believing that the most important work on earth is the work of saving souls, he had entered on his new course in the full conviction that, if God had work for him of this high character to do, ...

— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller

... on divine worship, on account of the official preference they enjoyed—a curious immunity from a penal obligation: to be taken, perhaps, as a sinister acknowledgment, that the government was not insensible to virtue—as the Russian courtezan extinguishes the candle of ceremony, and veils her patron saint.[95] ...

— The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) • John West

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