patriarchalism (English, noun)
expansion: patriarchalism (countable and uncountable, plural patriarchalisms)
Senses:
glosses: The quality of being patriarchal.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: government
human-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
historical
sometimes
uncountable
uppercase
Forms:
form: patriarchalisms
tags: plural