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patroness

/pey-truh-nis/US // ˈpeɪ trə nɪs //UK // (ˈpeɪtrənˌɛs) //

女赞助人,女资助人,女施主,女资助者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a woman who protects, supports, or sponsors someone or something.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ingodmother

Examples

  • Her canonization was finalized in 1946, with the Vatican declaring her Patroness of Immigrants in 1950.

  • In 1821 rumor had it that he intended to wed a miller's widow, his patroness, who was thirty-two years old.

  • She was the patroness of hunters, fishermen and sailors, and also a goddess of birth and health.

  • Margaret, who neither wanted sense nor feeling, wiped her tears hastily, and asked her patroness's forgiveness for her petulance.

  • She was the patroness of every art, and the friend of every man of genius.

  • From the first Batt applied himself to win his patroness' favour to his clever and needy friend.