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Definition
a form of social organization in which men are given more power than womenMore rarely, patriarchy can refer specifically to a form of social organization in which men head families and title is traced through the male line.
- We are working to displace the patriarchy in our society.
- The patriarchal society of the Victorian age was in full swing in our drawing room.Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
- Only now he disguised it in the patriarchal style of an old man's memories so that it would not be too obvious that it was really a document of love.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
- I'm not going to get sucked into that patriarchal institutional oppression again.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- That may be because an authoritarian and patriarchal home environment is mirrored in an authoritarian and patriarchal political system.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- Next to the house there was a patriarchal elm tree, against the trunk of which Finny leaned and shouted at me as I ran a large circle around him.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- He was a heavy man with a patriarchal white beard, and of imposing stature.Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
- This lonely, unconsenting rebel battled against the patriarchal influences that had shaped my childhood: the American South and the Catholic Church.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- Tradition it holds sacred; it is a patriarchal people; it cannot live without faith ....'Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
- What if it lured him away from the patriarchal faith?Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
- The Patriarchs were not dressed in bottle-green broadcloth, and yet his clothes looked patriarchal.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- He made remarks that were not witty, whilst his chief launched forth patriarchal admonitions against the colliers.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
- The simple, chilling fact was that Mahtob and I were totally subject to the laws of this fanatical patriarchy.Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
- And when I asked Alaska, she started yelling, 'You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.'John Green -- Looking for Alaska
- The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The Communist Manifesto
- It's a very patriarchal society, and as modern as it is, women are still second-class citizens.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- They have, in the country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- As a person of color, you shouldn't have to fit into any white, patriarchal system.ZZ Packer -- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
- He was a stocky fleshy man in the middle fifties, with a ruddy face, a patriarchal beard, and the thick complacent features of his tribe.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and the other with prim Lombardies.Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables