Apologist vs Patron - What's the difference?
apologist | patron | Related terms |
One who makes an apology.
One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.
One who protects or supports; a defender.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
A property owner who hires a contractor for construction works.
An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
(historical, Roman antiquity) A master who had freed his slave but still retained some paternal rights over him.
An advocate or pleader.
* Macaulay
(UK, ecclestiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
(nautical) A padrone.
Apologist is a related term of patron.
As nouns the difference between apologist and patron
is that apologist is one who makes an apology while patron is owner, boss.apologist
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (one who makes an apology) apologizer, apologiserReferences
*patron
English
Noun
(en noun)- patron of my life and liberty
- the patron of true holiness
- This car park is for patrons only.
- Let him who works the client wrong / Beware the patron' s ire.