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Matriarchate   Listen
noun
Matriarchate  n.  The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... feeling. As the earliest word learnt and clung to by the child, it twines itself with the heart-strings of the man even to his latest day. Nor must we forget that in a primitive state of society (the Matriarchate) that influence was probably even greater than now; for the father of the child being (often as not) UNKNOWN the attachment to the mother was all the more intense and undivided. The word Mother had a ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter



Words linked to "Matriarchate" :   social system, structure, matriarchy



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