Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That political condition or organization in which the chief authority of each tribe or family resides in a patriarch; patriarchy.
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- noun The quality of being
patriarchal . - noun historical, politics, philosophy, sometimes uppercase A political theory which arose in England in the seventeenth century, which emphasized the absolute power of the king as the paternal head of state, viewing his fatherly power as having been inherited genealogically from
Adam .
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Examples
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Indeed, the panel of Presbyterians finds that marriage itself, though sometimes liberating, is too often vitiated by "patriarchalism" and "heterosexist" assumptions.
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Many women were part of the fighting units of ELAS which, inter alia, preached a liberation of women from the bonds of patriarchalism.
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And no - if a mother degrades a non-mother which again, don't know what that looks like, so I'm limited in here, I don't think that it's necessarily to do with patriarchalism.
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To me this argues control of marriage, abortion, and gays as simply patriarchalism — a behavior more easily understood by watching wolf and chimpanzee troops.
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That prices out those who seek cheap ruralness, and probably discourages those who seek traditional, (like God, family) even reactionary values (like xenophobia, patriarchalism, racism), because they won't find them there.
Rural Mexico 2005
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That prices out those who seek cheap ruralness, and probably discourages those who seek traditional, (like God, family) even reactionary values (like xenophobia, patriarchalism, racism), because they won't find them there.
Rural Mexico 2005
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That prices out those who seek cheap ruralness, and probably discourages those who seek traditional, (like God, family) even reactionary values (like xenophobia, patriarchalism, racism), because they won't find them there.
Rural Mexico 2005
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That prices out those who seek cheap ruralness, and probably discourages those who seek traditional, (like God, family) even reactionary values (like xenophobia, patriarchalism, racism), because they won't find them there.
Rural Mexico 2005
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That prices out those who seek cheap ruralness, and probably discourages those who seek traditional, (like God, family) even reactionary values (like xenophobia, patriarchalism, racism), because they won't find them there.
Rural Mexico 2005
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That prices out those who seek cheap ruralness, and probably discourages those who seek traditional, (like God, family) even reactionary values (like xenophobia, patriarchalism, racism), because they won't find them there.
Rural Mexico 2005
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