clientage

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

He is now in practice in San Francisco, and has a large clientage.

From Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Field, Stephen Johnson

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

Amongst all South African tribes the rich exert their power to subjugate the poor, who hang upon them in a kind of clientage, hoping to receive something.

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

He was admitted to practice, and with it he rose rapidly both in knowledge of the common law and in securing a paying clientage.

From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Culp, Daniel Wallace