Auspices
['ɔːspɪsɪz] or ['ɔspə,siz]
Definition
(noun.) kindly endorsement and guidance; 'the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council'.
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Definition
(pl. ) of Auspice
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Favor, influence, patronage, protection, support.
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Examples
- It is for your sake that I wish you, under the auspices of Mrs General, to form a--hum--a surface. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He then laid a telegraph from Washington to Baltimore under the auspices of the United States Government, which after long hesitation appropriated $30,000 for the purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In May, 1879, an international congress was convened, under the auspices of Ferdinand de Lesseps, to consider the question of the best location and plan of the canal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I might enter Florence under happier auspices a month hence and find it all beautiful, all attractive. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The various interests were combined in a corporation under whose auspices the system was installed on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, where it was used for several years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But this boon to Ireland, it is to be hoped, has been granted under more fortunate auspices than all those to America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There must have been great intellectual friction going on there under the auspices of such a man! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Under what auspices? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I trust we shall meet under less melancholy auspices. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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