cliencyn.
/ˈklʌɪənsi/, U.S. /ˈklaɪənsi/ rare before 19th cent.
The state or condition of being a client (in various senses).
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1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Kalanterie, cliencie, or Frendship.
1826 Morning Post 24 Aug. The very terms, as popularly understood amongst us, convey the ideas of patronage on the one part, and retainership or cliency on the other.
1882 Chamber's Jrnl. 11 Mar. 159/2 The woman is..well deserving the high consideration and attention due to her excellent cliency.
1900 New Eng. Mag. 21 643/2 One daring to renounce a state of cliency upon Europe and stand upon his own national feet.
1953 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 43 140 Dr. V., for his part, is inclined to stress the punitive aspect of Caesarian colonization in regions of Pompeian cliency.
1977 A. P. Thornton Imperialism in 20th Cent. iii. 121 They saw a security in the condition of cliency which they could have got nowhere else.
2010 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 69 905 Provincial elites organized themselves into small war bands wherein relations of blood, marriage, and cliency figured.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1648- to have a good stroke at eating
- to have a good time
- to have a good time of formerly on it
- to have a good time of it
- to have a good war
- to have a great loss in
- to have a great loss of
- to have a great mind
- to have a great miss of
- to have a green bonnet
- to have a green thumb
- to have a grey head and a green tail
- to have a grudge against
- to have a grudge against at
- to have a grudge against to
- to have a gust of
- to have a hand at
- to have a hand for
- to have a hand in
- to have a hand in the dish
- to have a hand in the pie
- to have a hank on or over any one
- to have a hard-on for
- to have a hardon for
- to have a hatch before the door