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comparative more patriarchal, superlative most patriarchal
Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. quotations examples
About whose patriarchal knee / Late the little children clung.
1852, Alfred Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, […]
Relating to a system run by males, rather than females; relating to a patriarchy. examples