metronymic

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Her forehand was clean and metronymic, her backhand powerful and poised.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2019

BPM ends inside the club, where the same metronymic beat that once attended the members of ACT UP Paris, many now dead, in their joy, now supports them in their grief.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2018

Among many tribes of the North American Indians this metronymic or maternal system was peculiarly well-developed.

From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)

Strictly speaking, therefore, there has never been a matriarchal stage of social evolution, but rather a maternal or metronymic stage.

From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)

Descent henceforth was reckoned in the paternal line, and society had become patronymic instead of metronymic.

From Society Its Origin and Development by Rowe, Henry Kalloch