Patriarchalism

Noun

Definitions

1.NounThe quality of being patriarchal.

2.NounA political theory which arose in England in the seventeenth century, which emphasized the absolute power of the king as the paternal head of state, viewing his fatherly power as having been inherited genealogically from Adam.

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