phratry
noun
a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe.
phratries
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pluralof phratry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The division in gentes, phratries and tribes constituted in Rome for centuries the foundation of the military organization, and also of the exercise of the rights of citizenship.
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
"Whatever we may learn about the oldest Attic laws is founded on the organization in gentes and phratries."
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
As a matter of fact, the development of the entire Grecian mythology from the traditional old Aryan cult of nature was essentially due to the gentes and phratries and took place within them.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
When the two “primary clans” made alliance and connubium, they became the phratries in the local tribe, and their colonies became the totem kins within the phratries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
There were the gentes, tribes, and phratries, or brotherhoods, that still existed, and the individual entered the state in civil capacity through his family.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
