Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a patriarch.
- adjective Of or relating to a patriarchy.
- adjective Ruled by a patriarch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a patriarch: as, patriarchal power or jurisdiction.
- Subject to a patriarch: as, a patriarchal church.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of a patriarchy.
- Resembling or characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
- Also
patriarchic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs
- adjective Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
- adjective (Ethnol.) Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations.
- adjective (Her.) a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See
Illust. (2) ofCross . - adjective the divine dispensation under which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to a system run by
males , rather thanfemales .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank
- adjective characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word patriarchal.
Examples
-
I'm torn between using the term patriarchal conspiracy and thinking of a term that's less likely to get me laughed of the internet
-
Encouragement and support do they derive from James, in maintaining the "peculiar institution" whence they derived their wealth, which they call patriarchal, and boast of as the "corner-stone" of the republic?
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
-
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 American Anti-Slavery Society
-
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, Part 4 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
-
Under the systems which we call patriarchal, the modern distinctions between sins and crimes had no existence.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
-
Under the systems which we call patriarchal, the modern distinction between sins and crimes had no existence.
Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856
-
Mr. Cioffi's first essay on Freud, "Freud and the Idea of a Pseudo-Science," attracted little attention when it was published in 1970, partly because it appeared in a philosophy journal and partly because it was overshadowed by another Freud critique that drew a lot of attention that year: Kate Millett's "Sexual Politics," which condemned Freud along with many others for what she called his patriarchal bias against women.
NYT > Home Page By PAUL VITELLO 2012
-
Mr. Cioffi's first essay on Freud, "Freud and the Idea of a Pseudo-Science," attracted little attention when it was published in 1970, partly because it appeared in a philosophy journal and partly because it was overshadowed by another Freud critique that drew a lot of attention that year: Kate Millett's "Sexual Politics," which condemned Freud along with many others for what she called his patriarchal bias against women.
NYT > Home Page By PAUL VITELLO 2012
-
We couldn't help note both books concern the plight of powerless women living in patriarchal societies — and that they were both written by men.
Commonplace 2010
-
A tale of lust, class, treachery and retribution, Middleton's early 17th-century tragedy (the exact date of composition is disputed) follows the ill-starred loves of three women grappling for autonomy in patriarchal Florence.
Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women' Celia Wren 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.