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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.
Synonyms
Examples for "matriarchy"
Examples for "matriarchy"
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The easiest thing is to say it is a survival of matriarchy.
2
The truth is that I never fully bought the matriarchy idea.
3
And it's like the opposite of patriarchy is not matriarchy -it's democracy.
4
I do not consider there was ever a matriarchy that was a utopia.
5
But feminism has reinforced rather than challenged -or even acknowledged -matriarchy.
Usage of matriarchate in English
1
And in a matriarchate we should undoubtedly hear of the Eternal Masculine.
2
In the dimmest, oldest religions, nearest the matriarchate, we find great goddesses-typesof Motherhood, Mother-love, Mother-careand Service.
3
Theseus over the Amazons, and the rise of a new civic order on the ruins of a matriarchate?
4
The primitive government was the Matriarchate.
5
That period was called the Matriarchate.
6
Professor Karl Pierson finds in the study of witchcraft some of the fossils that point back to the Matriarchate.
7
(3) Social Organization.--Thereis a possibility that features of a primeval matriarchate long survived; but there is no certain evidence.
Frequent collocations
Matriarchate through the time