patronal
/pəˈtɹəʊnəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Pertaining to a strong authoritarian leader who controls access to resources.
Example Sentences
- "Lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies, their penates and patronal god might be called forth by charms and incantations."
- "Nor has the state lost its patronal role, with ministries of culture and publicly funded arts bodies sustaining the cultural economy."
- "Aristocratic involvement in the development of towns and cities in nineteenth-entury Britain has long been recognised, but much less attention has been paid to the character of the patronal relationships which existed between aristocratic urban landlords and their tenantry."
- "Manumission loyalty also offers us insights into how ancient conversion might look in a context of patronage and benefaction, for slaves did not change patrons when they attained their freedom, but rather underwent a considerable change within the patronal relationship."
- "In considering how the preceding analysis relates to the rest of the world, one can think of the post-Soviet countries as providing something like a pristine context in which to study the fundamental characteristics of patronal politics."
Etymology
From Latin patrōnālis. Compare French patronal.
Inflected Forms
more patronal (comparative)
most patronal (superlative)