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Meanings of matriarchate in English

Portuguese
matriarcado
Catalan
matriarcat

A form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line.

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        Usage of matriarchate in English
        1
        And in a matriarchate we should undoubtedly hear of the Eternal Masculine.
        The Glands Regulating Personality / A Study of the Glands of Int...
        2
        In the dimmest, oldest religions, nearest the matriarchate, we find great goddesses-typesof Motherhood, Mother-love, Mother-careand Service.
        The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture
        3
        Theseus over the Amazons, and the rise of a new civic order on the ruins of a matriarchate?
        Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies
        4
        The primitive government was the Matriarchate.
        Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
        5
        That period was called the Matriarchate.
        The Woman's Bible
        6
        Professor Karl Pierson finds in the study of witchcraft some of the fossils that point back to the Matriarchate.
        The Living Present
        7
        (3) Social Organization.--Thereis a possibility that features of a primeval matriarchate long survived; but there is no certain evidence.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for matriarchate
        Portuguese
        matriarcado
        Catalan
        matriarcat
        Matriarchate through the time