Meanings
- not comparableNot patriarchial.
[…] but come it should and will, unless they become metamorphosed, for their barbaric sloth can hardly be tolerated in these unpatriarchial times;
1855, James Stride, The War, and a New Map of Europe, Mining Journal Office for the Author, page 352 more examples
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.
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 4389It 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.
2007, Ruthann Mayes-Elma, “Investigating The Chamber of Secrets”, in Harry Potter: Feminist Friend or Foe?, BRILL, →ISBN, page 17
Origin
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