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Another word for backer

Noun

  1. A person who supports or champions an activity, cause, or institution, for example

    2. See also:

    help

  2. One who assumes financial responsibility for another

    3. See also:

    support

    law

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Another word for backer

Noun
    2. See also:

    sponsor

    sponsor

    patron

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Sentence Examples

  • For full bibliography see De Backer and C. Sommervogel, Bibliotheque de la Cie.

  • de Backer, Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus (ed.

  • de Backer.

  • They are as follows: Institutum Societatis Jesu (7 vols., Avignon, 1830-1838); Orlandini, Historia Societatis Jesu (Antwerp, 1620); Imago primi saeculi Societatis Jesu (Antwerp, 1640); Nieremberg, Vida de San Ignacio de Loyola (9 vols., fol., Madrid, 1645-1736); Genelli, Life of St Ignatius of Loyola (London, 1872); Backer, Bibliotheque des ecrivains de la Compagnie de Jesus (7 vols., Paris, 1853-1861); Cretineau Joly, Histoire de la Compagnie de Jesus (6 vols., Paris, 1844); Guettee, Histoire des Jesuites (3 vols., Paris, 1858-1859); Wolff, Allgemeine Geschichte der Jesuiten (4 vols., Zurich, 1789-1792); Gioberti, Il Gesuita moderno (Lausanne, 1846); F.

  • An admirable biography is to be found in Richard Simpson's Edmund Campion (1867); and a complete list of his works in De Backer's Bibliotheque de la compagnie de Jesus.

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