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Thus by my talents, honesty, and acuteness, I had, considering I was a poor patronless outcast, raised for myself very powerful protectors.

From Barry Lyndon by Thackeray, William Makepeace

He was poor and patronless then, as he had continued ever since, with slender likelihood of ever possessing L.100 of his own, much less L.1000 to settle on a wife.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 by Chambers, William

A' things o' religion hae settled into a method that gies the patronless preacher but little chance o' a kirk.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

Patroness and patronless have also the long a.

From Every-Day Errors of Speech by Meredith, L. P.