patronate

noun

1. The right or duty of a patron; patronage.

   uncountable

   Whose will shall be clothed with the dominancy of the matter; the will of the Home Secretary of the day, and a small body of the landlords, or the will of the recipients of the eucharist in the parish—the patronate or the congregational will?

Where it comes from

From Latin patrōnātus. By surface analysis, patron + -ate (noun-forming suffix denoting a rank or office).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry patronate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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