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Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and the other with prim Lombardies. (source)patriarchal = large, old, and imposing (figuratively as a father might be seen in a family)
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How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?† (source)patriarchal = relating to a form of social organization in which men are given more power than women
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The Priory believes that Constantine and his male successors successfully converted the world from matriarchal paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern religion forever.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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As we heard at the panel discussion yesterday afternoon, Gilead was, although undoubtedly patriarchal in form, occasionally matriarchal in content, like some sectors of the social fabric that gave rise to it.† (source)
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It was a patriarchal society, in which age was respected, even revered, especially when, as in my maternal grandfather's case, age meant a lifetime of hard work, of caring for his family, and of devotion to his faith.† (source)
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I'm not going to get sucked into that patriarchal institutional oppression again.† (source)patriarchal = relating to a form of social organization in which men are given more power than women
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Because I was born out of wedlock, and my mom doesn't believe in what she calls the cult of the patriarchy, she gave me her last name instead of my dad's.† (source)
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Carter nearly always intends to upset the patriarchal apple cart.† (source)
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The simple, chilling fact was that Mahtob and I were totally subject to the laws of this fanatical patriarchy.† (source)
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That may be because an authoritarian and patriarchal home environment is mirrored in an authoritarian and patriarchal political system.† (source)
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The most transient visitor to this planet, I thought, who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony, that England is under the rule of a patriarchy.† (source)
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It's a very patriarchal society, and as modern as it is, women are still second-class citizens.† (source)
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He nearly touched an old catcher's mitt set on a pedestal, the object gashed yellow, spike-gashed and sun-smoked and patriarchal, but he managed to hold back.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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Major — de Coverley was a splendid, awe-inspiring, grave old man with a massive leonine head and an angry shock of wild white hair that raged like a blizzard around his stern, patriarchal face.† (source)
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