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US
/ˈpeɪtɹiˌɑɹk/
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[ UK /pˈætɹɪˌɑːk/ ]
[ UK /pˈætɹɪˌɑːk/ ]
NOUN
- the male head of family or tribe
- a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself
- title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
- any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
How To Use patriarch In A Sentence
- In the beginning of the ninth century St. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople, states that all are obliged to observe xerophagy during those seasons The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- This is the basic economic pattern of patriarchy, which is a different thing to capitalism.
- The later patriarchal cultures denounced them as immoral and wanton.
- The researcher employed the in - depth interview method to explore male experiences under the patriarchal ideology.
- The Church, concludes the ecumenical patriarch, which by its educational activities instructed the people of God in revealed truth through the centuries, owes much to these schools of human thought, which contributed to man's intellectual and spiritual development, drawing him away from useless preservationism. Spero News
- She associated his father, the patriarch - he acting in close concert with his two accountants, neither of whom were called by the Crown.
- Most forceful among these voices were those of African women, who declared that the Pan-Africanism of the formal leadership was androcentric and patriarchal.
- The word patriarch as applied to Biblical personages comes from the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
- With great joy I received the announcement of Your Beatitude's election to the Patriarchal See of Alexandria for Copts and your request for Ecclesiastical Communion.
- Under these patriarchates and exarchates came the eparchies under metropolitans; they had under them the bishops of the various cities. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy