Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Supremacy of the father in the family that traces descent in the male line: distinguished from supremacy of the uncles or brothers of a wife and mother in the family that traces descent in the female line. It is a broader and less technical term than the Latin patria potestas.
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Examples
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Sure, that kind of stuff is OK if one lives in a world of father-right and tribes.
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The course of law in respect to the inheritance of children during the Middle Ages can be read in the pages of Deneus and the wider comparative aspect of the subject studied in the volumes of Post, Dargun, Engels, etc., where the various effects of mother-right and father-right are discussed and interpreted.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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India; in Africa it is found in the eastern Sahara, the Soudan, the east and west coast, and in the centre of the continent, but not to the exclusion, altogether, of father-right, while in the north the intrusion of Europeans and the followers of Islam has tended to suppress it.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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The narrowest group organized according to father-right consists of the father and his children.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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The system of father-right is found scattered over the whole globe.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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But when Mrs. Gasquoine Hartley remarks on the change that "It was no more possible for society to be built up on mother-right alone than it is possible for it to remain permanently based on father-right," 15 it is clear that she has omitted to consider the inevitable consequence of war, a neglect which vitiates her theory of the evolution of the women's movement in common with so many others.
Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women Charles Kay 1915
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It is absolutely essential that we should realise that it is possible for society to remain permanently based on father-right, and that it certainly will remain so based as long as and wherever wars and preparations for wars are an essential feature of civilisation.
Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women Charles Kay 1915
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Yet so tenaciously did the Marquesans cling to the father-right in the child, that even this fact could not break it down.
White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900
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Yet -- and this is a most significant fact -- the father-right in the child remained the basis of the social system.
White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900
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The father-right, so familiar to our minds that it seems to-day almost the only natural or existing social system, was in fact developed very lately among all races except the Caucasian and some tribes of the Mongols.
White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900
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