[see -SHIP.] State or relation of a client: the correlative of patronage.
1649. C. Walker, Hist. Independ., II. 145. Their Nomenclators, their Prehensations, Invitations, Clientships.
1697. Dryden, Virgil, Ded. Patronage and Clientship always descended from the Fathers to the Sons.
1878. Seeley, Stein, I. 208. A number of middle States … were attached to France in a condition of clientship.
