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/pˈeɪtrənˌaɪzɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Patronize v. t. (past & past part. patronized; pres. part. patronizing)

To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid. "The idea has been patronized by two States only."

To trade with customarily; to frequent as a customer. (Commercial Cant)

To assume the air of a patron, or of a superior and protector, toward; used in an unfavorable sense; as, to patronize one's equals.

adjective

Patronizing adj. Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another.

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Etymology of 'Patronizing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Patronizing" Quotes from Famous Books

... in regular sentences. Unconsciously he had fallen into the soft patronizing tone in which aforetime he ...

— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan

... at the bottle, then me, with a strange expression: a little pity—not patronizing—but mostly feminine understanding. "Soda pop? Of course. You don't like ...

— Question of Comfort • Les Collins

... Press of altogether too free a nature on the American Government, their disparaging cartoons of the President and the patronizing air adopted by many English war journals and often in the English daily Press towards America—as, for example, in a recent number of the Morning Post, alleged former German hankerings for colonies in South America, from ...

— My Three Years in America • Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff

... independently. He sent an armed expedition to chastise the guilty, and that in defiance of all opposition on the part of his allies, the English, who, from national jealousy, resisted a French protectorate in the East, and so assumed the disgraceful role of patronizing hordes of assassins. Incomprehensible conduct! since, a few years later, the same people were so moved by Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria that no British government could have dared to raise an arm in defence of the crumbling Empire of the Sultan. Pius IX. was ...

— Pius IX. And His Time • The Rev. AEneas MacDonell

... and his friend may gain will be owing to their having played, before the end of the sixteenth century, the parts of Dogberry and Verges in a comedy by Shakespeare, whom they are at present rather in the habit of patronizing. The story is received with boisterous laughter, for it suits the time ...

— My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke • J. M. Barrie

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