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Definition of Housefathers
1. housefather [n] - See also: housefather
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housefathers
Literary usage of Housefathers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Ideals: A Study of Intellectual and Spiritual Growth from Early by Henry Osborn Taylor (1921)
"As the greater assembly would consist of the housefathers, so each clan might
have an elder, and one elder from each of the hundred clans would constitute ..."
2. The Social Psychology of Passive Resistance by Clarence Marsh Case (1915)
"... the examination which the housefathers regard necessary to be held of those
who make request to have the marriage ceremony performed among us,"( about ..."
3. A Selected Bibliography and Syllabus of the History of the South, 1584-1876 by Howard Haines Brinton, Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown, Alexander von Humboldt, John Nicol Farquhar, William Kenneth Boyd, John Washington Lockhart, Robert Reid, José López de Bustamante, Robert Preston Brooks, Jonnie (Lockhart) Wallis, Evergreen Press, F (1915)
"During the whole of their long course they are watched day and night by their
teachers and housefathers. Without these they may not go out even for a walk. ..."
4. Historical Essays by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"The patricians, patres, housefathers, goodmen—so lowly is the origin of that
proud name—were once the whole Roman people, the original inhabitants of the ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in twenty-four volumes. by William Makepeace Thackeray (1869)
"asks papa, reclining on his sofa, where, perhaps, he was dozing after the fashion
of honest housefathers. The girls said how Harry Warrington was in the ..."
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