[
US
/ˌpætɹɪˈɫɪniəɫ/
]
ADJECTIVE
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based on or tracing descent through the male line
a patrilineal society
How To Use patrilineal In A Sentence
- In this patrilineal society, property is a male birthright.
- The northern type of family is thus patrilineal and patrilocal and the married women in such a family live in the house of their father-in-law (sasural). The sociological concept of joint family in India
- Descent is patrilineal - both sons and daughters are born into the clan of their father.
- The vast majority of Gambia's ethnic groups are patrilineal and patrilocal.
- A telling sign of heightened stress within the patrilineal family is the rise of litigation over property devolution.
- However, some questions were still unanswered, since the avunculate is not associated always with either matrilineal or patrilineal systems.
- Most kin groups tend to be patrilineal and patrilocal, although there are also large categories of matrilineal kin who share rights to land and to local religious and political offices.
- In the seventeenth century, the enforced celibacy of daughters and cadets already caused by the dowry inflation was further exacerbated by primogeniture and the triumph of the patrilineal family.
- It can test for shared strands of autosomal DNA – meaning any line of ancestry, not just pure matrilineal or patrilineal lines. Lecture in Dublin on Tracing Your Irish Ancestors via DNA « Cork Genealogist
- In a patrilineal society, having many male offspring was a big concern and a much-invoked wish.