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Definition of Matriarchs
1. matriarch [n] - See also: matriarch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matriarchs
Literary usage of Matriarchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature: An Anthology by B. Halper (1921)
"The Patriarchs and matriarchs Intercede on Behalf of Their Exiled Children'
Jeremiah went about by the fathers' graves, and said: ' Beloved ones, ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"... their opinions are easily recognised by the principle» of the bishops who
frequent their houses. These matriarchs of course tear each other в fair fame ..."
3. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"... and after being transported for an offence which excited the compassion of
her judges, became one of the ' matriarchs ' to whom our Australian cousins ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1876)
"... quantity and quality are seldom combined. Still we admit that size is something.
The Patriarchs and matriarchs no doubt were more imposing than if the ..."
5. Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological by William Isaac Thomas (1909)
"In this respect, too, the Papago is more or less like neighboring tribes, ail of
whom claim patriarchs and matriarchs who have far outlived the normal span ..."
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