clientship
nounEtymology From client + -ship.
1
The position of a client.
- patronage and clientship always descended from the fathers to the sons1697, Virgil, “Dedication”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- […] the capital of the Mandubians, a peoplet in clientship to the Æduans.1884, François Guizot, The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848 (page 61)