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- adjective Characteristic of or pertaining to a
matriarchy . Alternative form ofmatriarchal .
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Examples
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The Oppressed-African-Caribbean-Canadians have some advantages, like a matriarchial culture that boasts an eighty percent illegitimacy rate, a near complete dependency on welfare (just like the Bonobos picking fruit from the trees), and they are cute to look at.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Arguably one of the most "martial" of all nations in history was a matriarchial society.
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Arguably one of the most "martial" of all nations in history was a matriarchial society.
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Um, no, actually it came from a seven year study of ancient religions and matriarchial cultures.
Apocalypto Rogers 2006
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Depending upon whether it's a matriarchial or a patriarchial society, the mother or the mother-in-law would take charge of the new born infant.
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One is the condition of affairs in a remote matriarchial period, when descent was reckoned always through the maternal line, and the fatherhood in each generation was obscure or unknown or commonly left out of account; and the other is the fact -- so strange and difficult for us to realize -- that among some very primitive peoples, like the
Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886
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A number of earlier societies were matrilineal and matriarchial--for good reason.
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One is the condition of affairs in a remote matriarchial period, when descent was reckoned always through the maternal line, and the fatherhood in each generation was obscure or unknown or commonly left out of account; and the other is the fact -- so strange and difficult for us to realize -- that among some very primitive peoples, like the Australian aborigines, the necessity for a woman to have intercourse with a male, in order to bring about conception and child-birth, was actually not recognized.
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