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When their father had died, even though Tyler was only seven at the time, he had effectively become the patriarch of the family.
The family patriarch, Jack, makes a foolish decision that affects the rest of the family for decades.
The churches in both kingdoms acknowledged the Coptic patriarch as their head and he consecrated their metropolitan bishops.
Her father is a terrifying patriarch who wants the city slicker out of his village.
The criminal deed is the sons' murder of the tribal patriarch who had monopolized the women of the horde.
The head of the house is the elderly father or the patriarch of the family, and the mother has authority over her daughter-in-law.
On his deathbed, a family patriarch agonizes over being able to recognize his grandchildren.
As the patriarch of the family, my grandfather commanded an enormous amount of respect.
The patriarch of the family cautiously goes into the kitchen only to find that there is only a half quart of milk and two slices of bread left!
He proceeded down the aisle, dressed in the robe of the patriarch of the family.
Richard, 33, is the boardroom-reared princeling trying to make a name for himself beyond the shadow of the famous patriarch.
Lee Petty, the venerable patriarch, died on April 5 at age 86 of complications from a stomach aneurysm.
He had become the patriarch of the family, and of a traditional style of singing as well.
The family patriarch makes all decisions regarding living arrangements, children's marriages, and money.
He championed victims of injustice and the public came to view him not as an impudent libertine but as a patriarch and a sage.
The Orthodox Church is headed by a patriarch, presiding over the Holy Synod, with a hierarchy of regional archbishops, bishops, and priests.
He plays patriarch an ailing archeologist who's preoccupied with funeral rituals.
They are brought together after 17 years when the roguish patriarch returns to the fold, apparently dying of cancer.
Gene Hackman's performance as outcast family patriarch Royal is an absolute joy to watch.
Mrs. Shem abnegates her part in the cursing and places the blame on the patriarch.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The head of the church is called the Abuna, and is consecrated by the Coptic patriarch of Alexandria.
He has the power of sanctioning the appointment of their patriarch, after he has been selected by their bishops.
It would have been his part to wait on the patriarch, but who was Plotinus?
Of Wickliffe, the patriarch of the Reformation, our knowledge is extremely small.
No oecumenical synod has tried a patriarch of Old Rome while yet in the flesh.
Here lives Joseph Livesey, the patriarch of the movement, now in his ninety-first year.
Thus in 1771 the Armenian patriarch and all his people renounced nestorianism and returned to the unity of the Church.
Midgard's chief hero, the real Teutonic patriarch, tries to reconquer for the Teutons the country of which winter has robbed them.
I hold the keys of the Melchizedek Priesthood and of the office and power of patriarch.
This proved to be the Melchite patriarch, for in those days Koptic priests practised medicine and cultivated other sciences.
It was a live oak of most stupendous dimensions, the very patriarch of the prairie, grown grey in the lapse of ages.
My uncle is a patriarch and takes no part in the licentiousness of our times.
So anything that tends to liberalize the family, to exorcise the ghost of the old patriarch, is agreeable.
He was the last-born of the patriarch, and the youngest brother of the majestic bearded gentleman engaged in tea-making.
Let us bless heaven that the patriarch of the gnosis has selected the former.
Is your house more secure than the convent of the patriarch, or the palace of the emir?
Uncas took the scout by the hand, and led him to the feet of the patriarch.
The claim of its bishop to be ecumenical patriarch stopped short of the Primacy.
A patriarchy is a monarchy in which the chief power is exercised by a patriarch, or father.
Cephalus, the patriarch of the house, has been appropriately engaged in offering a sacrifice.
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