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)
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
The Iroquois Indians, among whom Morgan lived, were a typical maternal or metronymic people.
From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
