All 4 Uses of
patronage
in
Great Expectations
- I asked him, with a modest patronage.†
Chpt 7 *
- If the villain had stopped here, his case would have been sufficiently awful, but he blackened his guilt by proceeding to take me into custody, with a right of patronage that left all his former criminality far behind.†
Chpt 13
- "How did you like my reading of the character, gentlemen?" said Mr. Waldengarver, almost, if not quite, with patronage.†
Chpt 31
- If you were to renounce this patronage and these favors, I suppose you would do so with some faint hope of one day repaying what you have already had.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(patronage) support or favor givenThe exact sense of patronage depends upon its context. For example::
- "wants to increase federal patronage of the arts" -- donations made to support an organization or person
- "a political patronage appointee" -- favors given such as political appointments or contracts given in return for political support
- "rewards repeat patronage" -- business from customers -- especially recurring business