Matriarchate is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 701 anagrams from letters in matriarchate (aaacehimrrtt).
First recorded in 1880-85; matriarch + -ate3
The matriarchate disappeared and the patriarchate took its place.
The term "matriarchate" encouraged this fallacy and has gone out of use.
Under the matriarchate, monogamy was the rule; neither polyandry or promiscuity existed.
A form of society existed at an early age known as the matriarchate or Mother-rule.
Every part of the world today gives evidence of the system; reminiscences of the matriarchate everywhere abound.
matriarchate is assumed on this theory to have been universal in prehistoric times.
I said the peoples with whom we are now being brought as a nation into vital relationship may be still in the matriarchate.
Even in modern Germany remnants of the matriarchate survive.
Bachofen, who has written voluminously upon the matriarchate, recognizes it as peculiarly characteristic of womans government.
Let no one imagine that the so-called "matriarchate" of early ages was an ideal condition of society.
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