patrilineagen.
/ˌpatrᵻˈlɪnɪɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˌpætrəˈlɪniᵻdʒ/ Cultural Anthropology and Sociology.
A patrilineal lineage; patrilineal descent. Also figurative.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent > side > male line or side
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1949 J. F. Holleman Pattern of Hera Kinship i. 1 The relationships and their respective terminology have to be seen in the framework of patrilineages.
1955 G. C. Homans & D. M. Schneider Marriage, Authority & Final Causes 20 Almost all the eastern Asian societies in which he finds mother's brother's daughter marriage preferred are organised in patrilineages.
1969 Tanzania Notes & Rec. July 10 All minor local government posts..had been consistently awarded not only to men resident in the chief's settlement, but also only to men from his own immediate patrilineage.
1991 Jrnl. Royal Musical Assoc. 116 293 This is the transformation that came too late to head off Kiesewetter's vigorous rejection of the idea of Greek patrilineage for Western music.
2002 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. (Nexis) 8 The spirit of a murdered person invariably becomes a ngozi and it turns against the family of its assassin. Hence, a ngozi is never a member of its murderer's patrilineage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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