Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Patriarchal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as patriarchal.
Wiktionary
- adj. Patriarchal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Patriarchal.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of societies) being ruled by or having descent traced through the male line
Etymologies
- patriarch + -ic (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It preserves the patriarchic walled garden hierarchy of app-lockin and single-vendor-mediated consumer experience!”
“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.”
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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.”
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“Confucian society is patriarchic, at peace with top-down compliance.”
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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.”
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“Indeed, the Jewish community in Iraq was divided according to a rigid class structure and based on a hierarchical patriarchic system (Deshen 2001) in which women were inferior and isolated from the rest of the society.”
“In the former model, we have the dominator or patriarchic model.”
“The Empire is a strongly patriarchic society and women are not allowed or even viewed as capable of the power of the Dragoneyes.”
“And if you had just ignored the whole thing, it would have been proof of your patriarchic arrogance.”
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“Noting the global nature of the women's emancipation struggle, Aguiar said, "In each country and within each culture there have been movements for social change conducted by women, and sometimes by women and men together trying to free women from cultural, religious and economic exploitation, political oppression and patriarchic structures.”
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