patriarchal character

For example, indentured servitude initially possessed a patriarchal character.

Blake invokes him almost as a stock character throughout his work, whenever a patriarchal character materializes.

Namus is an ethical category, a virtue, in Middle Eastern Muslim patriarchal character.

He was to all intents and purposes forgotten; the administration of justice in that south-eastern country still was of a rather patriarchal character.

Radical feminist theorists stated that modern society and its constructs (law, religion, politics, art, etc.) are the product of males and therefore have a patriarchal character.

Barbara Kingsolver's novel The Poisonwood Bible refers to the poem' following the news of the death of patriarchal character Nathan Price.

The patriarchal character of pre-Islamic Arabic culture influenced not only the content of the Quran and related doctrine, it persists today in the interpretation and application of Islamic dogma.

The Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, the cathedral church of Rome, is the only one in Western Europe which possesses a patriarchal character among Roman Catholics, since the Pope is the Patriarch of the Latin Rite church.

Among other frequent visitors was Mr, Edison's father, "one of those amiable, patriarchal characters with a Horace Greeley beard, typical Americans of the old school," who would sometimes come into the laboratory with his two grandchildren, a little boy and girl called "Dash" and "Dot."