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Aegis synonyms

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auspice
A sign indicative of future prospects; an omen:
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  1. A sign indicative of future prospects; an omen:
  2. Protection or support; patronage.
  3. Approval and support; guiding sponsorship; patronage
backing
Support, especially financial.
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  1. Support, especially financial.
  2. Those giving such support
  3. Support or aid:
patronage
The right to grant an ecclesiastical benefice to a member of the clergy.
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  1. The right to grant an ecclesiastical benefice to a member of the clergy.
  2. The giving of protection or support; sponsorship; all of the clients or customers of a business; clientele; political favors, such as appointing to governmental positions in exchange for political support. The giving of protection or support; sponsorship; all of the clients or customers of a business; clientele; political favors, such as appointing to governmental positions in exchange for political support.
  3. The power to appoint to office or grant other favors, esp. political ones
sponsorship
(Countable and uncountable) The aid or support provided by a sponsor; backing or patronage.
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  1. (Countable and uncountable) The aid or support provided by a sponsor; backing or patronage.
  2. (Uncountable) The state or practice of being a sponsor.
Find another word for aegis. In this page you can discover 6 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for aegis, like: auspice, backing, patronage, patronization, sponsorship and help.

Sentence Examples

  • He returned to Paris, and began to take part in politics under the aegis of M.

  • According to this later tradition Yahweh was unknown till the days of Moses, and under the aegis of His power the Hebrew tribes were delivered from Egyptian thraldom.

  • She bears the aegis, the awful shield of Zeus.

  • Compacts with a powerful foreign state, under whose aegis Israel was glad to shelter, involved covenants sealed by sacrificial rites in which the deity or deities of the foreign state were involved as well as Yahweh, the god of the weaker.

  • The county of Tripoli, the second of these principalities, had also come under the aegis of Jerusalem at an early date.

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