NOUN
- a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line
How To Use matriarchate In A Sentence
- During the past fifty years, these people have made rapid strides toward civilization, monandry and monogamy taking the places of polyandry and polygamy, and fifty or a hundred years hence, this matriarchate will, in all probability, entirely disappear. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire