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Definition of Patriarchies
1. patriarchy [n] - See also: patriarchy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patriarchies
Literary usage of Patriarchies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Methodist Review (1855)
"There were monarchical patriarchies, as, for example, in the extreme East;
oligarchical patriarchies, as in Assyria and Judea; democratical patriarchies, ..."
2. Primitive and Ancient Legal Institutions by Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"... and may be divided into segments, each one of which is ruled by a patriarch,
the patriarchies being subordinate groups within a ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1869)
"... and the constitution of their government, which is purely patriarchal, divided
into numerous patriarchies, split by hereditary feuds into factions, ..."
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