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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PAT'RONIZING, ppr. Defending; supporting; favoring; promoting.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension [syn: arch, condescending, patronizing, patronising]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Patronize Pa"tron*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patronized; p. pr. & vb. n. Patronizing.] 1. To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid. The idea has been patronized by two States only. --A. Hamilton. 2. To trade with customarily; to frequent as a customer. [Commercial Cant] 3. To assume the air of a patron, or of a superior and protector, toward; -- used in an unfavorable sense; as, to patronize one's equals.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Patronizing Pa"tron*i`zing, a. Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Note: in BRIT, also use 'patronising' If someone is patronizing, they speak or behave towards you in a way that seems friendly, but which shows that they think they are superior to you. The tone of the interview was unnecessarily patronizing . ADJ [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, arrogance, arrogant, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, big, condescendence, condescending, condescension, domineering, domineeringness, haughtiness, haughty, haughty airs, hauteur, high horse, high-faluting, high-flown, high-hat, high-headed, high-nosed, hoity-toitiness, hoity-toity, loftiness, lofty, overbearing, overbearing pride, overbearingness, overweening pride, patronization, patronizing attitude, pride, priggish, proud, proudness, purse-pride, purse-proud, side, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, stiff-necked pride, stuck-up, superbia, superior, toploftiness, toplofty, uppish, uppishness, uppity, uppityness, upstage