unpatriarchial
See also: unpatriarchal
English
Etymology
From un- + patriarchial.
Adjective
unpatriarchial (not comparable)
- Not patriarchial.
- 1855, James Stride, The War, and a New Map of Europe, Mining Journal Office for the Author, page 35:
- […] but come it should and will, unless they become metamorphosed, for their barbaric sloth can hardly be tolerated in these unpatriarchial times;
- 1960, Melvil Dewey; Richard Rogers Bowker; L. Pylodet; Charles Ammi Cutter; Bertine Emma Weston; Karl Brown; Helen E. Wessells, Library Journal - Volume 85, Part 3, R.R. Bowker Company, page 4389:
- For example, in “A Family Matter” he treats the interaction of character and personality within a family group of three brothers and their respective wives and children when the father - a most unpatriarchial patriarch - decides to settle down with one of them.
- 2007, Ruthann Mayes-Elma, “Investigating The Chamber of Secrets”, in Harry Potter: Feminist Friend or Foe?, BRILL, →ISBN, page 17:
- It will be interesting to see if Rowling ever allows Ginny to save Harry in subsequent books, which of course would be a very unpatriarchial thing to do - I love it.