clientage

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

I had a large clientage among the farmers.

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

Later, the "fibbouses" abounded more and more plenteously, as her clientage increased, and she applied the term indiscriminately, regardless whether the recipient were an Apollo, or a mere Diana.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.

Besides he had hopes that his clientage would continue to grow so that he would be able to provide all reasonable comforts for his new home.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert

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