patronalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /pəˈtɹəʊnəl/

形容詞

patronal (comparative more patronal, superlative most patronal)

1. patron; protecting; favouring
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     Lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies, their penates and patronal god might be called forth by charms and incantations.

   • 2013, Michael Bhaskar, The Content Machine:

     Nor has the state lost its patronal role, with ministries of culture and publicly funded arts bodies sustaining the cultural economy.

2. Pertaining to a strong authoritarian leader who controls access to resources.
   • 1988, Dietrich Denecke, Gareth Shaw, Alan R H Baker, Urban Historical Geography: Recent Progress in Britain and Germany, →ISBN:

     Aristocratic involvement in the development of towns and cities in nineteenth-entury Britain has long been recognised, but much less attention has been paid to the character of the patronal relationships which existed between aristocratic urban landlords and their tenantry.

   • 2012, Zeba A. Crook, Reconceptualising Conversion, →ISBN:

     Manumission loyalty also offers us insights into how ancient conversion might look in a context of patronage and benefaction, for slaves did not change patrons when they attained their freedom, but rather underwent a considerable change within the patronal relationship.

   • 2015, Henry E. Hale, Patronal Politics, →ISBN, page 455:

     In considering how the preceding analysis relates to the rest of the world, one can think of the post-Soviet countries as providing something like a pristine context in which to study the fundamental characteristics of patronal politics.