Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an author.
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Approbation; sanction.
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That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…
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The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.
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The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to.
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Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation.
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To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
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To care; to desire.
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To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…
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The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.
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The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
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To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
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Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
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One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.
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One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.
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That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…
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State of being champion; leadership; supremacy.
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The condition or position of a client; clientship
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The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.
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A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.
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To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid.
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To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…
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A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
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