Both Uses of
patriarch
in
David Copperfield
- That sagacious Miss Mills, too; that amiable, though quite used up, recluse; that little patriarch of something less than twenty, who had done with the world, and mustn't on any account have the slumbering echoes in the caverns of Memory awakened; what a kind thing she did!†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Traddles, exactly the same simple, unaffected fellow as he ever was, sits at the foot of the large table like a Patriarch; and Sophy beams upon him, from the head, across a cheerful space that is certainly not glittering with Britannia metal.†
Chpt 63-64
Definition:
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(patriarch) a usually elderly man who is the leader of a group such as a family or tribe