(n.) The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the matriarch of women who toke is Nancy Botwin ( Mary-Louise Parker ) in the long-running TV series Weeds .
(2) Many say that female “water protectors”, in some cases drawing on matriarchal tribal structures, are the core spiritual leaders strategizing how to block the “black snake” pipeline and planning actions to stand up to a police force that has gone to great lengths to defend an oil corporation .
(3) Among the remaining patients was a divorced mother of four with a failing liver who was engaged to be remarried; a second world war " Rosie Riveter " who had trouble speaking because of a stroke; and Ma'Dear, an ailing matriarch with long, braided hair, renowned for her cooking and the strict but loving way she raised 12 children.
(4) The same day, another family, in the corner and speaking a foreign language, huddles around a matriarch quite literally kept alive by machines.
(5) She played matriarchal leads in two BBC series of the 1980s, King's Royal and Strike It Rich, before going into Inspector Wexford.
(6) The play, about a pill-popping matriarch and her rackety family, will be adapted for the screen by Tracy Letts, who won a Pulitzer prize for the work.
(7) They named her after the Hebrew matriarch whose pleas for a child were eventually answered.
(8) Because of the large number of young men who had either been killed in the Civil War, left the region seeking a new beginning in the West, or moved to more prosperous metropolitan centers on the East coast, rural life in 19th century New England was primarily matriarchal or female-centered.
(9) Guided by Freud's dialectic thinking and his discussion of the phenomena of patriarchy and matriarchy, one is led to contemplate the totemism of a matriarchally oriented boy.
(10) The death and burial of a southern matriarch, Addie Bundren, is told from some 15 viewpoints, including that of the dying woman herself.
(11) "So many rappers aren't talking about what's going on in the music industry and how many people are gay," says DJ and scene matriarch Venus X.
(12) A wolf called No9 had the first litter of eight pups and was known as the “matriarch of Yellowstone”.
(13) "He saw Forrest as the matriarch and the patriarch of the family, in the wake of their parents' deaths.
(14) Mother: Andrée, fearsome matriarch Education: a mediocre student, has an MA in private law and degree in business law.
(15) All the other women in my family are magnificent matriarchs with beautiful, well-organised homes, while the role I've played until now has been peripatetic and undomesticated.
(16) Scott said zookeepers had been keeping a close eye on the female elephants since the death earlier this month of the zoo's matriarch elephant, Connie.
(17) Analysis of mitochondrial (mt) DNA restriction sites shows that Kemp's ridley is distinct from the olive ridley in matriarchal phylogeny, and that the two are sister taxa with respect to other marine turtles.
(18) Matriarch, I note, has now become almost a term of abuse when used about Angela Merkel.
(19) But even as the leader attempted not to sound like the matriarch in charge of the family till, there is no denying that that is exactly what she is.
(20) Winner: 2012's reimagining of the matriarch as handy recap tool.
Matrimony
Definition:
(n.) The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.
(n.) A kind of game at cards played by several persons.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a test case that significantly expands the media's ability to report on matrimonial hearings, Mrs Justice Roberts has permitted everything conducted in a private hearing to be published for the first time – apart from financial information relating to the couple's personal or business affairs.
(2) On a Muslim matrimonial site, Muslima.com, where he was seeking a second wife, Abdaly, 29, listed Luton as his home, and said he had met his first wife in Bedfordshire.
(3) Catholics will be urged to protect the "true meaning" of matrimony as the Catholic church steps up its campaign against government plans for gay marriage.
(4) The paper analyses results after investigation of free selection of families, parents myopia selected by signs and a definite minimum age of their first-order offsprings, including 108 matrimonial couples with the total number of 209 children.
(5) The essential differences were found in the matrimonial status and the socioprofessional categories.
(6) Are our communities capable of providing that, accepting and valuing their sexual orientation, without compromising Catholic doctrine on the family and matrimony?” In its catechism, the Catholic church brands “homosexual acts … intrinsically disordered” and the pope, while encouraging a more welcoming stance towards gay people, has said nothing that deviates from that.
(7) The data are analyzed with a view to finding differences in the distributions of matrimonial distances among the caste groups, and to examine the relationship of the inbreeding coefficients of these gorups with their mean matrimonial distances and population sizes.
(8) In an attempt to relate the degree of inbreeding to the mean matrimonial distance and population size, it was found that the former is more useful in predicting the degree of inbreeding than population size.
(9) Where better to shake off the taint of matrimonial metaphor and renew their alliance on a more business-like footing than in Basildon?
(10) Data on the distance between the birthplaces of spouses - matrimonial distance - were collected from 2260 married individuals belonging to 21 endogamous castes of the Dhangar (shepherd) caste-cluster of Maharashtra, India.
(11) He said the marriage act is based on important elements of Australian federation and couples bound by it have access to "matrimonial clauses", including divorce.
(12) Thirty men with fertility disorders, 21 to 42 years of age (mean 29 years) and mean duration of sterile matrimony 4 years 7 months received Vitaton treatment.
(13) It is one that is still to be adequately researched and its wounds properly examined (as Paltrow's "love guru" and matrimonial discord adviser, Dr Habib Sadeghi, might say) with appropriate help provided.
(14) Extra-matrimonial conceptions probably often occur, for that reason any statement about fertility of man is inaccurately.
(15) Many of the patients suffered from disturbed matrimonial relations, and 36 lived unmarried, divorced, or widowed.
(16) Further examination is made of the differences in matrimonial differences and inbreeding coefficients in terms of sociocultural norms regulating choice of mates, geographic dispersal of population, and migrational history, concluding that the situation is in conformity with norms prevailing in south and north India.
(17) In the 1970s, we campaigned for the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act which gave women more legal options for escape, and for the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act to include proper provision for women homeless through domestic violence.
(18) This effect cannot be explained by either an association of the smoking habit with malformation, premature birth, exaggerated consumption of coffee matrimonial status or paternal smoking, or by a combination of malformation, prematurity and any one of the other factors.
(19) Their relation is, therefore, matrimonial and not patrimonial.
(20) The state electoral commission, citing initial results, said 65% of those who voted answered "yes" to the referendum question: "Do you agree that marriage is matrimony between a man and a woman?"