What's the difference between patrimony and patron?

Patrimony


Definition:

  • (n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.
  • (n.) Formerly, a church estate or endowment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The morphological platelet transformations corresponding to functional attitudes, need of energetic pattern given by the content, in platelets, of enzymatic patrimony.
  • (2) Such process of "archaeology" seems to be the only suitable to supply us the cipher-key of the ambiguous, shifty character of oxygen, and entrust us with a cultural patrimony being unique as it is spendable in an immediate clinical future.
  • (3) Pixadores have also tarnished sites that are part of the city’s historic patrimony, including the Ramos de Azevedo fountain in downtown São Paulo.
  • (4) The foods that constituted the core of the diet of the Americas before 1492--from maize to potatoes, beans to tomatoes, to numerous other fruits and vegetables--became the true patrimony that the inhabitants of the New World bequeathed to humanity.
  • (5) The struggle reflects a tension over the legitimacy of what Nepalis call 'source force', defined here as the use of patrimonialism within a bureaucratic structure.
  • (6) Their relation is, therefore, matrimonial and not patrimonial.
  • (7) The indications found in the examination lead to the conclusion that those who are predisposed to a certain type of delinquency, greater or lesser, (for example, towards crimes against the patrimony, especially if recidivous) continued to commit crimes at the same rhythm, or even in some cases at a greater rhythm, while those who may have fallen only rarely into crime (particularly women) tended to relapse less into crime.
  • (8) But they expressed surprise that the Holy See’s regulators had not yet made full inspections of either the Vatican ‘bank’ or the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), the department that manages the papacy’s assets.
  • (9) What occurs if some languages are known since very early childhood, and belong to a pre-symbolic structural patrimony closely bound to bodily sensations and concrete experiences?
  • (10) By the time the Mail, Telegraph and the rest go to town with mendacious scare stories, every ordinary homeowner will imagine any new wealth tax will steal away their children's patrimony.
  • (11) It is pointed out the value of the antibodies patrimony in existence in healthy persons, in order to prevent the diseases caused by virus and Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
  • (12) The Turkish legal team may argue that because the Convention is a living instrument, it should be interpreted in light of current international law including the UNESCO heritage conventions and other Governmental statements about not depriving countries of their cultural patrimony.
  • (13) "I've sought to take music, which is usually a luxury item, and turn it into cultural patrimony accessible to all".
  • (14) He had already been suspended from his job as an accountant in the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (Apsa) and, after his arrest, his IOR accounts were ordered to be frozen by the Vatican's promoter of justice .
  • (15) The subsequent information campaign attempted to adapt its message to each category identified, taking into consideration economic and psychosocial factors, the attachment of the population to its culinary patrimony, and the pejorative vision of dietetics perceived by part of the population.
  • (16) And if this is at the expense of the patrimony or easy goodwill of others, then so be it.
  • (17) The new museum is a fusion of this one and patrimony of the School of Medicine and the ancient San Vicente Hospital.
  • (18) Mennini heads a special unit inside the Vatican called the extraordinary division of APSA – Amministrazione del Patrimonio della Sede Apostolica – which handles the so-called "patrimony of the Holy See".
  • (19) These organisations would rather spend money with less old-style patrimony and more savvy in the vagaries of modern markets.
  • (20) The compensation awarded to the victim will consist of an overvalued extra-patrimonial damage which will eventually be able to balance a low physiological deficit price.

Patron


Definition:

  • (n.) See Padrone, 2.
  • (v. t.) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.
  • (n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.
  • (n.) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.
  • (n.) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.
  • (n.) An advocate or pleader.
  • (n.) One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.
  • (n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
  • (n.) A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.
  • (a.) Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
  • (2) The new slogan “for the thirsty” seems to lionise those who try different things: great for enticing new patrons but do you really want your loyal consumer base branching out beyond their usual pint?
  • (3) He has set up a "trade and growth" board for Scotland and will soon lead Scotland's "largest ever trade delegation to Brazil", a visit which will take place on St Andrew's Day, the patron saints day beloved by the nationalists.
  • (4) Immediately after the verdicts two Surrey-based charities, Shooting Star Chase and the Woking & Sam Beare Hospices, said that Clifford would no longer be their patron.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Charlie Webster explains her decision to quit as patron of Sheffield United She said: “At no point have Sheffield United acknowledged the extremity of his crime.
  • (6) In view of this, Hufeland has become a kind of 'patron saint' to modern chronobiologists.
  • (7) The bill should authorize stiff fines for unruly dog behavior – to include noise violations from sustained barking and lunging – and misdemeanor criminal penalties for menacing waitstaff and patrons.
  • (8) I went to the club twice and moved around, taking my photos without interacting much with any of the patrons,” McMullan recalled.
  • (9) He was the patron of an alternative medicine charity run by Dr Patrick Pietroni, who had a GP practice in the basement of Marylebone Church.
  • (10) If there is a patron saint of shorts in this country, then it is undoubtedly the Chungmeister, with her beloved denim hotpants and collection of lacy and smart city shorts.
  • (11) A former showgirl from the gravel pits of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Keeler was just 19 and was staying on the estate with her friend, patron and (some said) pimp, the society osteopath Stephen Ward.
  • (12) In the African American neighborhood south of the Midway, Gates gutted a string of condemned buildings and then turned them into sculpture, covertly turning his collectors into patrons of urban renewal .
  • (13) Litvinenko also received a regular stipend from the oligarch Boris Berezovsky , his friend and patron, who had arranged his escape from Russia in October 2000.
  • (14) Kabila's father, Laurent Kabila, had seized power with Rwandan help in 1997 only to then go to war with his former patrons and die by an assassin's bullet a little over three years later.
  • (15) They are thus funded or closed from season to season depending on the generosity of surrounding mines, the success of local art centres, and the sympathy of wealthy patrons.
  • (16) But we will support a secure and united Iraq as a partner, and never as a patron.
  • (17) He wants to style himself as patron of the most ambitious urban overhaul since Baron Haussmann dramatically changed the face of Paris in the mid-19th century when he carved out wide boulevards and the Champs Elysée.
  • (18) A spokesman for Prince Charles said: “The red squirrel is a most cherished and iconic national species, and, as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, the Prince of Wales keenly supports all efforts to conserve and promote their diminishing numbers.
  • (19) She gives the example of the Digismart scheme , of which she is a patron, which uses digital tools to mentor struggling school children, and has been introduced at 500 schools.
  • (20) Unlike the multi-racial community living and working in Woodstock , Cape Town’s oldest suburb, the vast majority of the Old Biscuit Mill’s patrons are white, while many of those serving in the food market and other businesses are black, as are the car guards and beggars outside.