aboriginal, ancient, civic, fatherly, gray with age, maternal, motherly, paternal, primeval, revered, white with age
Definitionadj. characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
Last update: November 3, 2015
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The second was patriarchal and of a strictly territorial nature. [Please select]
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What if it lured him away from the patriarchal faith. [Please select]
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The patriarchal religions exalted the family, the tribe, the nation. [Please select]
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THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE from the Patriarchal Ages to the Present Time. [Please select]
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Except for quite personal possessions, there was still an air of patriarchal communism about the tribe. [Please select]
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The Semite also was more polygamous than the Aryan, his women less self-assertive,[135] and the tendency of his government more patriarchal. [Please select]
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They are presented as patriarchal Bedouin chiefs, living the life of nomadic shepherds in the country between Babylonia and Egypt. [Please select]
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The Caliph had become a luxurious Emperor or King of Kings; the administration had changed from a patriarchal system to a bureaucracy. [Please select]
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But by the dawn of the historic period, the patriarchal monarchies of the Achæan age had given place, in almost all the Grecian cities, to oligarchies or aristocracies. [Please select]
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And the old men, with their patriarchal manners and their broad speech--it had been all sweet and pleasant to her. [Please select]
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