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plural patriarchies
(anthropology, history) 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.
A power structure in which men are dominant. quotations examples
England is under the rule of a patriarchy.
1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
(Christianity) The office of a patriarch; a patriarchate. examples