All 13 Uses of
patron
in
Great Expectations
- This was not a very ceremonious way of rendering homage to a patron saint, but I believe Old Clem stood in that relation towards smiths.†
Chpt 12 *
- I have found out who my patron is.
Chpt 44 *patron = someone who supports an organization or person
- In these dialogues, my sister spoke to me as if she were morally wrenching one of my teeth out at every reference; while Pumblechook himself, self-constituted my patron, would sit supervising me with a depreciatory eye, like the architect of my fortunes who thought himself engaged on a very unremunerative job.†
Chpt 12
- It would all come out in good time, I observed, and in the meanwhile nothing was to be said, save that I had come into great expectations from a mysterious patron.†
Chpt 18
- that the youth's earliest patron, companion, and friend, was a highly respected individual not entirely unconnected with the corn and seed trade, and whose eminently convenient and commodious business premises are situate within a hundred miles of the High Street.†
Chpt 28
- I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering Esquimaux or civilized man, who would have told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my fortunes.†
Chpt 28
- Never even hinted, for instance, that your patron might have views as to your marriage ultimately?†
Chpt 30
- "Is it likely," I said, after hesitating, "that my patron, the fountain-head you have spoken of, Mr. Jaggers, will soon—" there I delicately stopped.†
Chpt 36
- To state that my terrible patron carried this little black book about the world solely to swear people on in cases of emergency, would be to state what I never quite established; but this I can say, that I never knew him put it to any other use.†
Chpt 40
- He had no occasion to say after that that he had conceived an aversion for my patron, neither had I occasion to confess my own.†
Chpt 41
- His being my lawyer, and his being the lawyer of your patron is a coincidence.†
Chpt 44
- But I had quite determined that it would be a heartless fraud to take more money from my patron in the existing state of my uncertain thoughts and plans.†
Chpt 47
- "Have you heard, Joe," I asked him that evening, upon further consideration, as he smoked his pipe at the window, "who my patron was?"†
Chpt 57
Definitions:
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(1)
(patron as in: a patron of the arts) someone who contributes money to an organization
or:
a supporter of an organization or person -
(2)
(patron as in: a patron of the restaurant) a customer -- especially a regular one
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(3)
(patron saint as in: a patron saint) in some Christian denominations: a saint who is thought to look after a group, activity, or place