paterfamilias

Example Sentences

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The Smith family went silent afterward, leaving it to the paterfamilias' PR team to do damage control via press release.

From Salon

The story of an early kidnapping gone awry that led to a woman's death opens our eyes to the family's vulnerability before their paterfamilias built the fortress around them; they are human, after all.

From Salon

With the death of his father, Prince Philip, at 99, last year, he became paterfamilias of the House of Windsor.

From New York Times

Naming a male child after his father, grandfather, etc., is the very essence of “paternalistic,” in that it is a legacy of “paterfamilias” — a father figure.

From Washington Post

Phil, is a kind of paterfamilias to the Master Chorale, having employed it regularly from the start to perform with the orchestra.

From Los Angeles Times