Definition of Patroness. Meaning of Patroness. Synonyms of Patroness

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Definition of Patroness

Patroness
Patroness Pa"tron*ess, n. [Cf. F. patronnesse.] A female patron or helper. --Spenser. Night, best patroness of grief. --Milton.

Meaning of Patroness from wikipedia

- Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another. In the history of art, art...
- A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental...
- Mother Patroness (Russian: Мать-Покровительница, Mat’-Pokrovitel’nitsa; Chuvash: Aнне-Пирĕшти, Anne-Pirĕshti) - a monument dedicated to his[clarification...
- Turan was the Etruscan goddess of love, fertility and vitality and patroness of the city of Velch. In art, Turan was usually depicted as a young winged...
- Amman; 23 January 1881 – 1 June 1957), was an Italian heiress, muse, and patroness of the arts in early 20th-century Europe. Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman...
- designated as the patroness of the Apostolic Vicariates of Northern and Southern Arabia. Pope Pius XII decreed the Marian title as Patroness of Kuwait via...
- Nurbanu Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: نور بانو سلطان, "queen of light"; c. 1525/1527 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the legal...
- Miliukova, and the collapse of his 13-year ****ociation with the wealthy patroness Nadezhda von Meck. Tchaikovsky's homo****uality, which he kept private...
- Italian Catholic mystic and devotee of the Dominican Order. She is the patroness of First Communicants and many dioceses make use of her feast as a day...
- canonized as a saint. As a saint, Rose of Lima has been designated as a co-patroness of the Philippines along with Pudentiana; both saints were moved to second-class...