Literary notes about Sponsor (AI summary)
The term "sponsor" in literature frequently conveys the idea of a benefactor or authoritative figure who confers legitimacy or support. In some narratives, it denotes a ceremonial or religious role, as seen when a man becomes a baptismal sponsor for a stranger or a child, symbolizing guidance and protection [1, 2, 3, 4]. In other texts, the word extends to signify someone who endorses or stands by a cause, person, or event—a practice that can be traced back to traditions of naming and patronage, thereby linking personal relationships with social or political legitimacy [5, 6, 7, 8]. At times, the term is also used metaphorically to evoke the notion of support or backing in various human endeavors, melding the personal and civic spheres into a broader cultural obligation [9, 10, 11].
- This is evinced by his becoming sponsor in baptism for a savage, almost as soon as he has landed at Quebec.
— from The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 8: Quebec, Hurons, Cape Breton, 1634-1636 - Without a sponsor, the priest will not name the baby.
— from The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron - She was highly honoured at her christening, for Queen Victoria acted as sponsor person, and held the baby in her arms.
— from The Portland Peerage Romance by Charles J. Archard - He was sponsor or godfather to one of his children.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack - Now the newcomer finds in the subsisting One a sponsor to christen it by the name of Two.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - The Baron de Nucingen acted as sponsor to Polydore de la Baudraye when he was admitted to the French peerage.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Cerfberr and Christophe - This year King Cynegils was baptized by Bishop Birinus at Dorchester; and Oswald, king of the Northumbrians, was his sponsor.
— from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - A noble lord stood sponsor for the prince, who was named Villem.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Then they chatted for a moment of Hastings' prospects, and Clifford politely offered to stand his sponsor at the studio.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers - It is therefore auspicious for the phenomenal success of this sensible and practical work that the genial Mrs. Partington is its sponsor.
— from The Life of La Fayette, the Knight of Liberty in Two Worlds and Two Centuries by Lydia Hoyt Farmer - It made him want to retreat to childhood, to find solace in his sponsor's strength as he had once found it in his father's.
— from Fearful Symmetry: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson