different between patronage vs authority

English

Etymology

From Middle English patronage, from Old French patronage (modern French patronage). Equivalent to patron +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?t??n?d??/

Noun

patronage (countable and uncountable, plural patronages)

1. The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.

2. Customers collectively; clientele; business.

   Hyponym: ridership

3. A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
4. (politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
   • 2015, Thomas J. Gradel, Dick Simpson, Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality, University of Illinois Press (?ISBN), page 117:

     Patronage, nepotism, cronyism, abuse of power, and criminal activity flourish, sometimes for decades, in numerous town halls, police stations, and special-purpose government agencies in the suburbs.

5. Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

6. The right of nomination to political office.
7. (Britain, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
   • {{RQ:Blackstone Comm|passage=Advowson is the right of presentation to a church, or ecclesiastical benefice. Advowson, advocatio, signifies the taking into protection; and therefore is synonymous with patronage

Translations

Verb

patronage (third-person singular simple present patronages, present participle patronaging, simple past and past participle patronaged)

1. (transitive) To support by being a patron of.
2. (transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize

   Synonyms: support, keep going

Dutch

Etymology

From patroon +? -age. Cf. English patronage, French patronage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.tr??na?.??/
• Hyphenation: pat?ro?na?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

patronage n (plural patronages)

1. patronage (act of providing approval and support)

   Synonyms: beschermheerschap, patronaat

French

Etymology

patron +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.t??.na?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

patronage m (plural patronages)

1. Patronage

Further reading

• “patronage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French patronage; equivalent to patroun +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /patro??na?d?(?)/, /patru??na?d?(?)/, /pa?tro?nad?(?)/, /pa?tru?nad?(?)/

Noun

patronage (plural patronagis)

1. The privilege of being able to choose ecclesiastical appointees; advowson.

Descendants

• English: patronage

References

• “patr?n??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-17.

English

Alternative forms

• authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???t???ti/
• Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
• Rhymes: -???ti

Noun

authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)

1. (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

2. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
3. (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
   • 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman

     To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

4. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.

   New York Port Authority

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• have something on good authority

References

• authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
• authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.