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[ adjective ] characteristic of a patriarchy

Used in print

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

And all this too shall pass_away : it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church_service when he was a boy - yes , in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson_Valley , where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English Dutch manors with their well-fed squires .

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