clientage

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

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

In South America we also meet with at least one case of a tribe, or part of a tribe, which is in clientage to another tribe.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

For a young man he had already a considerable clientage.

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