[f. prec. + -AGE.]
1. collect. A body of clients; following, clientele.
1633. Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, N. T., 40. With them which were of the faction and clientage of Herod.
1873. Freeman, Compar. Politics, 261. The lowly clientage of the Roman Patrician.
1882. Masson, in Macm. Mag., XLV. 251. Jeffrey’s more narrow-laced clientage of the blue-and-yellow.
2. The relation of a client to his patron.
1861. Goldw. Smith, Irish Hist., 20. Traces of the cognate institution of the Clan are seen in the Roman clientage.
1864. Burton, Scot Abr., I. i. 24. Protected in a sort of clientage by one of the princes of the blood.
