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- noun Plural form of
patrocination .
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Examples
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As for the third, I grant it to be true, for learned advocates and counsellors at law are so much taken up with the affairs of others in their consultations, pleadings, and such-like patrocinations of those who are their clients, that they have no leisure to attend any controversies of their own.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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As for the third, I grant it to be true, for learned advocates and counsellors at law are so much taken up with the affairs of others in their consultations, pleadings, and such-like patrocinations of those who are their clients, that they have no leisure to attend any controversies of their own.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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As for the third, I grant it to be true, for learned advocates and counsellors at law are so much taken up with the affairs of others in their consultations, pleadings, and such-like patrocinations of those who are their clients, that they have no leisure to attend any controversies of their own.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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