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That said, I do think this is potentially less worrisome in a gay arrangement, if only because the power dynamic isn’t quite as severe in a patriarchical society as man-woman.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2020

His people see him as the personification of patriarchical strength of character.

From Time Magazine Archive

But my feelin’s all come from the name of the place we wuz bound for, and the patriarchical, Biblical past my mind wuz rovin’ round in.

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Holley, Marietta

The ministrations of the manor house were often patriarchical and beneficent; the seigneur's wife was like the squire's wife in an English village.

From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon

Their internal government is a hereditary patriarchical despotism, and their own exclusive interest is the measure of all their relations with the rest of mankind.

From Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. by Quincy, Josiah