Patronage Definition

Patronage Sentence Examples

• Nicholas and Denisov were walking up and down, looking with kindly patronage at the dancers.

• This power he used largely for the patronage of learning.

• Though evangelical in his views he by no means confined his patronage to that school.

• The president of the Republic has a military household, and the minister a cabinet, both of which are occupied chiefly with questions of promotion, patronage and decorations.

• Consequently where the right of patronage (the right of the patron to present to the bishop the person whom he has nominated to become rector or vicar of the parish to the benefice of which he claims the right of advowson) remains attached to the manor, it is called an advowson appendant, and passes with the estate by inheritance The distinction between nomination to a living and presentation is to be noted.