fatherdom
nounEtymology
From father + -dom.
Definitions
The state of being a father
The state of being a father; fatherhood.
The world, sphere, or unity of fathers
The world, sphere, or unity of fathers; fathers collectively.
- Lastly, religion is represented as fostering the cause of women, chiefly through its mysteries assigning a divine character, as it were, to motherdom as compared with fatherdom.
- That the Aeschylean Oresteia turns on the conflict between motherdom and fatherdom is notorious.
- Bachofen, the protagonist of the "mother-right" theory in the last century, observed that "motherdom is related to the idea of the day-bearing night, as fatherdom is to light sprung from the union of the sun with mother night."
The neighborhood
- synonymfatherhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fatherdom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA