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unpatriarchial

unpatriarchial adjective: not patriarchial.

Adjective

unpatriarchial (not comparable)

  1. Not patriarchial.
    • […] but come it should and will, unless they become metamorphosed, for their barbaric sloth can hardly be tolerated in these unpatriarchial times;1855, James Stride, The War, and a New Map of Europe, Mining Journal Office for the Author, page 35
    • For example, in “A Family Matter” he treats the interaction of character and personality within a family group of three brothers and their respective wives and children when the father - a most unpatriarchial patriarch - decides to settle down with one of them.1960, Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells, Library Journal - Volume 85, Part 3, R.R. Bowker Company, page 4389

Origin of unpatriarchial

From un- + patriarchial.

Questions about unpatriarchial

What does unpatriarchial mean?
Unpatriarchial means not patriarchial.
What part of speech is unpatriarchial?
Unpatriarchial is an adjective.

Words near unpatriarchial in the dictionary

  1. unpatient
  2. unpatiently
  3. unpatientness
  4. unpatinated
  5. unpatriarchal
  6. unpatriarchial
  7. unpatrician
  8. unpatriotic
  9. unpatriotically
  10. unpatriotism
  11. unpatristic

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