Definitions for patriarchate

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patriarchate pa·tri·arch·ate

Spelling: [pey-tree-ahr-kit, -keyt]

IPA: /ˈpeɪ triˌɑr kɪt, -keɪt/

Patriarchate is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 693 anagrams from letters in patriarchate (aaacehiprrtt).

Definitions for patriarchate

noun

1. the office, dignity, jurisdiction, province, or residence of an ecclesiastical patriarch.
2. a patriarchy.

Origin of patriarchate

1610-20; Medieval Latin patriarchātus, equivalent to Late Latin patriarch(a) (see patriarch) + Latin -ātus -ate

Examples for patriarchate

The ancient rule is that no bishop is eligible for the patriarchate.

He introduced the contemplative school and also the institution of the patriarchate, which for a time had some importance.

Putin also blamed Ukrainian nationalists for attacking the Orthodox Church of the Moscow patriarchate in Ukraine.

The matriarchate disappeared and the patriarchate took its place.

Under a patriarchate the mother yields to the grandmother and the great-grandmother.

But we have not yet forgotten the habits and traditions of the patriarchate.

Under a show of Christianity existed the patriarchate of Asia alone.

Bishoprics, and even the patriarchate were sold to the highest bidder.

The warden Shinsh had lost the patriarchate and with it the spiritual headship of Zen.

Kirill represented the Moscow patriarchate at the World Council of Churches in the early 1970s.