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clientage|ˈklaɪəntɪdʒ|
[f. prec. + -age.]
1. collect. A body of clients; following, clientele.
1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 40 With them which were of the faction and clientage of Herod. 1873Freeman Compar. Politics 261 The lowly clientage of the Roman Patrician. 1882Masson in Macm. Mag. XLV. 251 Jeffrey's more narrow-laced clientage of the blue-and-yellow.
2. The relation of a client to his patron.
1861Goldw. Smith Irish Hist. 20 Traces of the cognate institution of the Clan are seen in the Roman clientage. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. i. 24 Protected in a sort of clientage by one of the princes of the blood. |