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patriarch
  1. (Christianity) The highest form of bishop, in the ancient world having authority over other bishops in the province but now generally as an honorary title; in Roman Catholicism, considered a bishop second only to the Pope in rank. [from 9th c.]
  2. In Biblical contexts, a male leader of a family, tribe or ethnic group, especially one of the twelve sons of Jacob (considered to have created the twelve tribes of Israel) or (in plural) Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. [from 13th c.]
  3. A founder of a political or religious movement, an organization or an enterprise. [from 16th c.]
  4. An old leader of a village or community.
  5. The male head of a tribal line or family.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The series begins as the family's patriarch Rodrigo becomes Pope, propelling him, his two Machiavellian sons Cesare and Juan, and his scandalously beautiful daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance.”
      “Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858–1929) is credited as the family's first patriarch. He made his money in the alcohol industry before going on to serve as a Massachusetts state representative and senator.”
      “The elder, Gor Coron, was the tribe's patriarch before Darbus, Brother. He may be old, but if you do not treat him with respect, you will pay dearly for it.”
patriarchy
  1. (anthropology, historical) A social system in which the father is head of the household, having authority over women and children, and in which lineage is traced through the male line.
  2. A power structure in which men are dominant.
  3. (Christianity) The office of a patriarch; a patriarchate.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Some believe that institutionalized misandry doesn't and can't exist due to patriarchy.”
      “Aspects of patriarchy, in my opinion, have become co-opted by commercialism and corporatism.”
      “Paradise builds on West's critique, exploring colorism, elitism, and patriarchy as structures that compose the black bourgeois ideal.”
patriarchate
  1. (Christianity) The term of office of a Christian patriarch.
  2. The office or ecclesial jurisdiction of such a patriarch.
  3. The office-space occupied by a patriarch and his staff.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “What it is that bothers the Orthodox so much about the idea of a Ukrainian patriarchate?”
      “These policies changed during World War II, and in 1943 the regime accepted an accommodation with the Church that restored the patriarchate.”
      “Al-Moallaqa Church was the seat of the bishop of Babylon in the seventh century, and of the Coptic patriarchate in the ninth.”
patriarchalism
  1. The quality of being patriarchal.
  2. (politics) 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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  4. Examples:
    1. “The classic seventeenth-century patriarchalism that linked monarchal and paternal creative power would not endure.”
      “Laslett wished to discover how far English social and familial practice reflected Filmer's prescriptive patriarchalism.”
      “The result also displayed the resistance of patriarchalism and the approval for nepotism and cronyism.”
patriology
  1. (theology) A discipline of Christian theology, involving the study of God the Father as revealed in Scripture.
  2. (social sciences) A complex of male-dominated or male-centered aspects of cultural and social life; patriarchy.
patriarchess
  1. A female patriarch; a woman with the role of patriarch.
  2. The wife of a patriarch.
patriarchdom
patrifocality
  1. The state or condition of being patrifocal; patriarchy.
patriarchist
patriarchalist
patriarchisation
  1. Alternative spelling of patriarchization
patriarchism
patriarchization
  1. The act or process of patriarchizing.
patriarchalization
  1. The process of patriarchalizing.
patriarchalisms
patriarchalists
  1. plural of patriarchalist
patriarchdoms
patriarchisms
patriarchists
patriarchates
  1. plural of patriarchate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Today there are sixteen separate Orthodox churches and patriarchates.”
      “The Byzantine Empire soon lost the lands of the eastern patriarchates of Jerusalem, Alexandria and Antioch and was reduced to that of Constantinople, the empire's capital.”
      “Of its several patriarchates four reminiscent the pentarchy, while its autocephalous and autonomous churches reflect or variety of hierarchical organisation.”
patriarchesses
  1. plural of patriarchess
patriarchies
patriarchs
  1. plural of patriarch
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We are becoming the family patriarchs and matriarchs and the mantle sits uneasily on our shoulders.”
      “It is characteristic that between 1025 and 1081, the empire had twelve emperors but only five patriarchs.”
      “With a postal ballot, community patriarchs can insist on inspecting the ballots before voting.”
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