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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].
  1. 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
  2. Without a sponsor, the priest will not name the baby.
    — from The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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

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