Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Patriarchal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
patriarchal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Patriarchal.
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- adjective
Patriarchal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of societies) being ruled by or having descent traced through the male line
Etymologies
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Examples
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Caught in the crossfire of this battle for hearts and minds waged in the most paternalistic and patriarchic of ways, women are seen invariably as victims.
Beenish Ahmed: Damsels in Distress: Using Victimized Women as Political Ploys Beenish Ahmed 2010
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Caught in the crossfire of this battle for hearts and minds waged in the most paternalistic and patriarchic of ways, women are seen invariably as victims.
Beenish Ahmed: Damsels in Distress: Using Victimized Women as Political Ploys Beenish Ahmed 2010
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Confucian society is patriarchic, at peace with top-down compliance.
Tom Doctoroff: China's Communist Party: Not Losing Control Tom Doctoroff 2011
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Caught in the crossfire of this battle for hearts and minds waged in the most paternalistic and patriarchic of ways, women are seen invariably as victims.
Beenish Ahmed: Damsels in Distress: Using Victimized Women as Political Ploys Beenish Ahmed 2010
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Confucian society is patriarchic, at peace with top-down compliance.
Tom Doctoroff: China's Communist Party: Not Losing Control Tom Doctoroff 2011
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It is true that Indian society always has been a patriarchic society with males being the head of the family, but so is the case with all the other cultures -- eastern or western.
Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity Ph.D. Pankaj Jain 2011
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So just as we must shake such ingrained, patriarchic theories in animal biology, we must also reconsider the models we have for thinking about, understand, and relate to information in the flow of activity streams.
What can dogs tell us about the real-time web? | FactoryCity 2009
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It preserves the patriarchic walled garden hierarchy of app-lockin and single-vendor-mediated consumer experience!
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It is true that Indian society always has been a patriarchic society with males being the head of the family, but so is the case with all the other cultures -- eastern or western.
Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity Ph.D. Pankaj Jain 2011
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Caught in the crossfire of this battle for hearts and minds waged in the most paternalistic and patriarchic of ways, women are seen invariably as victims.
Beenish Ahmed: Damsels in Distress: Using Victimized Women as Political Ploys Beenish Ahmed 2010
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