of a criminal offense. The term “blackmail” in common usage has an even stronger implication of a crime than the word “patronage” which is defined as follows in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New College Edition (1981), at 961-62 (emphasis added): pat»ron»age n. 1. Support, encouragement, or championship from a patron. 2. A patronizing manner. 3. The trade given to a commercial establishment by its customers. 4. Customers or patrons collectively; clientele. 5. The “power or action of distributing governmental or political positions . 6. The positions so distributed. We therefore conclude that this term, as used in this instance, is not capable of a defamatory meaning. See Bresler, supra. See also Seropian v. Forman, 652 So.2d 490, 496 (Fla.Dist.Ct.App.1995) (<HOLDING>); Suozzi v. Parente, 202 A.D.2d 94, 616
holding that a hypothetical rhetorical threat against the president in the context of a political protest was constitutionally protected holding that a trial courts use of the term alimony was not conclusive against a claim that the award was actually a property settlement holding that the use of the term influence peddling in a defamation action against a newspaper was not defamatory but was mere rhetorical hyperbole a vigorous epithet holding that the mere use of the term settlement offer is permissible and indeed desirable in the course of resolving debts holding that the erroneous use of the term burglary in the beginning of the written jury instructions was not fundamental because any error was cured by the correct use of the term theft in the latter portion of the written instructions