matrilineagen.
/ˌmatrᵻˈlɪnɪɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈˌmætrəˈlɪniᵻdʒ/, /ˈˌmeɪtrəˈlɪniᵻdʒ/ Chiefly Cultural Anthropology and Sociology.
Matrilineal lineage or descent.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent > side > female line or side
mother-descent1642
distaff1644
spindle-side1851
spindle1877
distaff side1890
matrilineage1949
matriline1957
1949 M. Fortes Social Struct. 60 Membership of the matrilineage is ipso facto membership of a widely dispersed exogamous clan.
1951 B. Z. Seligman in Notes & Queries Anthropol. (ed. 6) ii. ii. 89 A matrilineage consists of all the descendants through females of a single ancestress.
1963 W. J. Goode World Revol. & Family Patterns iv. 194 The father is increasingly able to assert new rights against the traditional rights of the matrilineage.
1984 M. Dixon in M. Evans Black Women Writers (1985) 240 Ursa..learns that she was about to continue the oppressive matrilineage that held men and women captive to the need for generations in the manner preordained by her foremothers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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