patriarchal
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Borrowed from Late Latin patriarchālis, from patriarcha + -ālis. Sychronically analyzable as patriarch + -al.
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patriarchal (comparative more patriarchal, superlative most patriarchal)
- Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
- 1852, Alfred Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- About whose patriarchal knee / Late the little children clung.
- Relating to a system run by males, rather than females; relating to a patriarchy.
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characteristic of a patriarch
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relating to patriarchy
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