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What is the adjective for patriarchial?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs patriarchalize and patriarchize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

patriarchal
  1. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
  2. Relating to a system run by males, rather than females.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Here, the parents enjoy a patriarchal status, and the father claims the best chair near the fire.”
      “However, the Virgin Mother, the ideal of womanhood as presented by a patriarchal church, has been at the expense of real women.”
      “Big farmers in the area come from a strongly patriarchal and feudal background.”
patriarchial
  1. Characteristic of or pertaining to a patriarchy. Alternative form of patriarchal
patriarchalistic
  1. Of or relating to patriarchalism.
patriarchical
  1. Alternative form of patriarchal
  2. Examples:
    1. “Mormonism's patriarchical family hierarchy is the culprit in leaving little room for gay LDS members.”
      “The Bulgarian patriarchical cathedral, named after the 13th century Russian prince-saint, is thronged by hundreds of ordinary Bulgarians and high-ranking guests.”
      “Is society organized in an objectionably patriarchical fashion?”
patriological
  1. Of or pertaining to patriology.
patriarchic
patrifocal
  1. patriarchal
  2. Examples:
    1. “A quotation drawn from the interviews illustrates the instability of the patrifocal three-generation household.”
      “Both patrifocal and matrifocal households come about because of the need for economic betterment.”
      “The pivot of the problem here is adherence to a Confucian, patrifocal script for the family.”
patriarchalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of patriarchalize
patriarchalizing
  1. present participle of patriarchalize
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