Matriarchy Sentence Examples

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  • Some tribes were endogamic, and there matriarchy was the rule, descent being traced through the female line.

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  • Unfortunately, her appeals to the ' ancient matriarchy ' are ahistorical, and her analysis of the Ring itself simple.

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  • Nevertheless the Local side of tribal life in time tended to overwhelm the Social and to organize the tribe irrespective of matriarchy, and inclined towards hereditary chieftainship.

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  • The story centers on Stavia, daughter of the leader of Marthatown, as she grows from the age of ten to womanhood, discovering the secrets of the matriarchy.

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