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noun
The quality of being patriarchal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A political theory which arose in England in the seventeenth century, which emphasized the absolute power of the king as the paternal head of state, viewing his fatherly power as having been inherited genealogically from Adam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, sometimes, uncountable, uppercase
Topics: government, human-sciences, philosophy, politics, sciences
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History
From patriarchal + -ism.
