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Meanings of paterfamilias in English
Usage of paterfamilias in English
1
Like every paterfamilias, Octavianus had complete power over me in this regard.
2
Duroy knew that the manager was a paterfamilias, but he was astonished.
3
As a middle-aged paterfamilias I may benefit financially from this war.
4
Not good behavior in a paterfamilias, but the habit told its own tale.
5
The complication came about by the paterfamilias having missed his calling.
6
Contented paterfamilias and monarch of all he surveys, Joe's is, indeed, a golden existence.
7
Mr. Schmuck was an excellent "paterfamilias," and took great care of children.
8
It's impossible to tell whether it's the butler or paterfamilias.
9
That paterfamilias with the red moustache-ishe a soldier, a solicitor, a stockbroker, what?
10
In the earlier film he played a malevolent paterfamilias.
11
Why is the Sisyphus a hard working paterfamilias and the sacred beetle an idle vagabond?
12
The habit of running up bills with the milliners, and swindling paterfamilias on the house bills.
13
It was the paterfamilias who was up now, and the elderly relative was signing to him.
14
The Roman ethos was strictly conservative: it valued the authority of the paterfamilias and ancestral custom.
15
The world changes and paterfamilias ought to change with it out of consideration for his children.
16
That is how the ugly paterfamilias is made.
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Paterfamilias through the time