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n. The quality of being patriarchal.

n. A 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.

n. That political condition or organization in which the chief authority of each tribe or family resides in a patriarch; patriarchy.

"Indeed, the panel of Presbyterians finds that marriage itself, though sometimes liberating, is too often vitiated by "patriarchalism" and "heterosexist" assumptions."