"patronal" meaning in English

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          "text": "Lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies, their penates and patronal god might be called forth by charms and incantations.",
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          "text": "Nor has the state lost its patronal role, with ministries of culture and publicly funded arts bodies sustaining the cultural economy.",
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          "text": "Aristocratic involvement in the development of towns and cities in nineteenth-entury Britain has long been recognised, but much less attention has been paid to the character of the patronal relationships which existed between aristocratic urban landlords and their tenantry.",
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          "ref": "2012, Zeba A. Crook, Reconceptualising Conversion, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Manumission loyalty also offers us insights into how ancient conversion might look in a context of patronage and benefaction, for slaves did not change patrons when they attained their freedom, but rather underwent a considerable change within the patronal relationship.",
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          "ref": "2015, Henry E. Hale, Patronal Politics, →ISBN, page 455:",
          "text": "In considering how the preceding analysis relates to the rest of the world, one can think of the post-Soviet countries as providing something like a pristine context in which to study the fundamental characteristics of patronal politics.",
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