How To Use paterfamilias In A Sentence
- The family noise outside smothered now that the paterfamilias was in session. BLOOD IS DIRT
- Paterfamilias mentalities are important factors to affect deaf childrens rehabilitation.
- The genius of the paterfamilias was honored in familial worship as a household god and was thought to perpetuate a family through many generations.
- He was back to his English parody, this time the paterfamilias interviewing a suitor for his daughter's hand. THE ONLY GAME
- On being asked how they did it, the paterfamilias commented that it was the inevitable result of coming from two covenanted peoples.
- And I do not only refer to the family table, with the paterfamilias presiding over a dinner of curry and pilau. Food
- Beneath these specific demands, however, and colouring all of them, was a passionate desire to destroy the authority of the paterfamilias.
- But the legitimization of the traditional family provided by the paterfamilias doctrine was reaffirmed by conservative courts through a doctrine of ‘family autonomy’ in the 1920s.
- Like women and slaves, children were the property of the paterfamilias and could be sold or abandoned, as girls often were.
- The paterfamilias or head of the family had the right, in theory at least, to execute summarily any member, including in primis his slaves.
