clientage

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Harvard is a complex and august institution, possessed of all the attractions which can be lent by age, tradition, learning, continually renewed resources, fortunate situation, widespread clientage, enthusiastic loyalty, and forceful guidance.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman

Vaudrey caused these urgent people, as well as some others, to be received by Warcolier, who asked nothing better than to make tools, to sow the seed of his clientage.

From His Excellency the Minister by Roberts, Henri

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

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

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.