different between highness vs patronize

English

Alternative forms

• highnesse (archaic)
• 'ighness (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From Middle English hyghnesse; equivalent to high +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?n?s/
• Rhymes: -a?n?s

Noun

highness (usually uncountable, plural highnesses)

1. The state of being high.
   • 1672, George Swinnock, The Incomparableness of God

     'It is as high as heaven, what canst thou do?' It is as the highnesses of heaven: take all the heights and elevations, all the spheres and altitudes of heaven, and try if thou canst reach them with thy short arm; yea, climb up the highest storeys, the loftiest pinnacles, […]

Translations

English

Etymology

From patron +? -ize (verb ending); or from Old French patroniser, from Medieval Latin patronis?re (“to lead a galley as patron”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæt??na?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pe?t??na?z/, /?pæt??na?z/
• Hyphenation: pa?tron?ize

Verb

patronize (third-person singular simple present patronizes, present participle patronizing, simple past and past participle patronized)

1. (transitive) To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) enpatron, (obsolete) patrocinate
2. (transitive) To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.
3. (transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.

   Synonyms: condescend, infantilize
4. (transitive, obsolete) To blame, to reproach.

Alternative forms

• patronise (Commonwealth)

Coordinate terms

• matronize

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Anagrams

• prazitone