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Examples
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"I wish Direxia would stay in the room and matronise me; I'm afraid, I tell you."
Geoffrey Strong Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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No better proof of Stephen's intellectual process and its result could be adduced than her first act of recognition: she summoned an elderly lady to live with her and matronise her house.
The Man Bram Stoker 1879
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And, madam, you do not matronise -- and, sir, you do not patronise -- _waltzing_?
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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