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Definition of Patricentric
1. Adjective. Centered upon the father.
Similar to: Patriarchal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patricentric
Literary usage of Patricentric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Faiths of Famous Men in Their Own Words by John Kenyon Kilbourn (1900)
"is to be Moses's rod with a divine right to swallow all the rest, as being the
rods of mere magicians. . . . The future will see the patricentric,the ..."
2. The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell (1911)
"For the far-eastern social universe turns on a patricentric pivot. Upon the
conception of the family as the social and political unit depends the whole ..."