clientage
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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Why, your clientage as a fashionable physician, O sublime Jenkins, is made up of nothing else.
From The Nabob, Volume 1 by Ives, George Burnham
The instructors were Minim priests, and the life was as severe as it could be made with such a clientage under half-educated and inexperienced monks.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
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
Bridges695 says that one Fuegian is thrown into clientage to another by their mode of life.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
