patriarchate
Americannoun
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the office, dignity, jurisdiction, province, or residence of an ecclesiastical patriarch.
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a patriarchy.
noun
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the office, jurisdiction, province, or residence of a patriarch
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a family or people under male domination or government
Etymology
Origin of patriarchate
1610–20; < Medieval Latin patriarchātus, equivalent to Late Latin patriarch ( a ) ( see patriarch) + Latin -ātus -ate 3
Example Sentences
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He will also hold a special meeting with those aged 16 to 35 in Bkerke, north of Beirut, where the patriarchate of Lebanon's Maronite Church is located.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
The patriarchate declined to say what it would do with the money from the deal.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
He shows me a video of how he and his friends confronted a masked Jewish Israeli trying to scale the wall to take down the Armenian patriarchate flag, which bears a cross.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2023
After 1991, the Moscow patriarchate retained access to the site, while the Ukrainian government formally owns it as a museum.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
He divides its whole course, thus far, into four stages of evolution—savagery, barbarism, the patriarchate, civilization.
From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels, Friedrich
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