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Definition of Patrilineal
1. Adjective. Based on or tracing descent through the male line. "A patrilineal society"
Definition of Patrilineal
1. Adjective. Pertaining to descent through male lines. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Patrilineal
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Patrilineal
1. Related to descent through the male line; inheritance of the Y chromosome is exclusively patrilineal. Origin: L. Pater, father, + linea, line (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patrilineal
Literary usage of Patrilineal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Counts of Falkenstein: Noble Self-consciousness in Twelfth-century Germany by John B. Freed (1984)
"patrilineal Lineages and the Investiture Conflict This transformation in the
structure and self-perception of the nobility was a crucial factor in the ..."
2. Primitive Paternity: The Myth of Supernatural Birth in Relation to the by Edwin Sidney Hartland (1910)
"Husband's permanent residence in his wife's family : its tendency to patrilineal
reckoning. ... patrilineal ..."
3. Tracking Gender Equity Under Economic Reforms: Continuity and Change in by Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Ratna M. Sudarshan (2003)
"However it is notable that the convergence on a set of practices usually associated
with patrilineal groups has involved changes in women's property rights ..."
4. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"Thus, among the patrilineal Western Torres Straits Islanders a man would instantly
cease fighting at his maternal uncle's behest while he might override the ..."
5. Migration in South and Southern Africa: Dynamics and Determinants by Pieter Kok (2006)
"This is why patrilineal descent is often associated with a patrilocal settlement
system: the fact that the wife lives with the husband's family ..."
6. Land, Trees, and Women: Evolution of Land Tenure Institutions in Western by Ma Agnes R Quisumbing (2001)
"Among non-Akans, in contrast, the predominant pattern of inheritance is
patrilineal (81.1 percent). On the aggregate, only a small proportion (13.2 percent) ..."
7. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"1 In North America, according to Dr. Goldenweiser, we find no correlation between
higher culture and tribes with patrilineal descent and between lower ..."
8. Food Security in Practice: Using Gender Research in Development by Agnes R. Quisumbing, Bonnie Folger McClafferty (2006)
"... Land tenure dummies Dummy inherited and patrilineal -0.228 0.214* -90.667 ...
family land -116.241* Dummy allocated family and patrilineal -0.182 0.103 ..."
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