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UK
/pˈætɹəʊnəs/
]
[ US /ˈpeɪtɹənəs/ ]
[ US /ˈpeɪtɹənəs/ ]
NOUN
- a woman who is a patron or the wife of a patron
How To Use patroness In A Sentence
- Through the vicissitudes of life in a frontier province, Our Lady of Sion has remained the tutelary patroness of Lorraine.
- As virgin patroness of the canons at Chich, Osith here joins a pantheon of elite women, both in terms of her companion texts and the manuscript's users.
- Miri watched her patroness in the uppermost quadrant of the mirror.
- St. Lucy is populary know as the patroness of eye ailments. All Saints' Day Treats ~ St. Lucy Cupcakes
- Eustace smiled meekly, but answered somewhat venomously nevertheless — “I, at least, am certain that I speak the truth, when I call my patroness a virgin undefiled.” Westward Ho!
- Our sweet patroness died for our right to plant those mines.
- Patroness, Pinseng shallow cultivation, still can not heal ... offended every clothing.
- He seems to have been first beneficed at Walsby, in Lincolnshire, through the munificence of his noble patroness, Frances, Countess Dowager of Anatomy of Melancholy
- One was below a picture of Saint Maria Goretti, the patroness of young women and wayward teens.
- Nay, but first, he said, they must give their mites for a convent of the Clarisses, that was building at Castres, by the care of the holy Colette, whom he might call his patroness, unworthy as he was. A Monk of Fife