clientage

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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Feudalism could not be established, however, until the great of the land had adopted them for themselves, and had begun to enter the clientage of others and to hold lands by the precarium tenure.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

The Roman element of feudalism finds its representation in clientage.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)

He considered that with such a clientage his fortune was assured.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de

I had then got a considerable clientage of my own.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie