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UK
/pˈætɹɪˌɑːkəl/
]
[ US /ˌpeɪtɹiˈɑɹkəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌpeɪtɹiˈɑɹkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank
- characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
How To Use patriarchal In A Sentence
- 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.
- Most forceful among these voices were those of African women, who declared that the Pan-Africanism of the formal leadership was androcentric and patriarchal.
- 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.
- Must have been a patriarchal culture that dreamed that one up," Honor said. AMBERBEACH
- Encouragement and support do they derive from James, in maintaining the "peculiar institution" which they call patriarchal, and boast of as the "corner-stone" of the republic? The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
- When they become guerrillas the women set themselves free from patriarchal bonds.
- The portrait of ‘patriarchal oppression’ presented by the investigative journalist is nonsense, incidentally, and he - who has the perspective and temperament of a Victorian bluestocking - was laughed off the island.
- As long as these firms consisted of small, family-owned, patriarchally run units, and the price competition was fierce, their activities remained relatively uninteresting. The Prize in Economics 1978 - Presentation Speech
- A form of marriage very popular among some groups then and now is the patriarchal, where the wife is subservient to the husband.