Word Meanings - PATRONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Patron; protecting; favoring. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to PATRONAL)

• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• PATRONIZING
  Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray.
• PATRONYMIC
  Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
• PATRONIZER
  One who patronizes.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• PATRONAL
  Patron; protecting; favoring. Sir T. Browne.
• PROTECTORLESS
  Having no protector; unprotected.
• FAVOREDNESS
  Appearance.
• PROTECTIVE
  Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. " The favor of a protective Providence." Feltham. Protective coloring , coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry. Wallace. -- Protective tariff ,
• PROTECTIONIST
  One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
• PROTECTIVENESS
  The quality or state of being protective. W. Pater.
• FAVORED
  1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend. 2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
• FAVORER
  One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.
• FAVORITISM
  The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.
• PATRONATE
  The right or duty of a patron; patronage. Westm. Rev.
• UNFAVORABLE
  Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.
• DISFAVORABLY
  Unpropitiously.
• EVIL-FAVORED
  Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed. Bacon. -- E"vil-fa`vored*ness, n. Deut. xvi. 1.
• ENPATRON
  To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize. Shak.