Both Uses of
patriarch
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Take care, you are going to immure a traveller, Sinbad the Sailor, a man who comes to see Paris; you are going to make a patriarch of him.†
Chpt 39-40 *
- "My dear," said Villefort, in answer to his wife, "you know I have never been accustomed to play the patriarch in my family, nor have I ever considered that the fate of a universe was to be decided by my nod.†
Chpt 59-60
Definition:
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(patriarch) a usually elderly man who is the leader of a group such as a family or tribe