paterfamilias
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In the third volume of her Diaspora Quartet, Lee follows the Koh family from Australia to Korea to the United States as their paterfamilias John hews to his strong inner compass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
He believes that this number accounts for roughly 3,000 individuals, because in many cases it was only the paterfamilias who was recorded in inscriptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
There were meant to be so many rebels that they could be split into 'five families', a label that even one paterfamilias privately lamented "makes us look ridiculous".
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2023
The current paterfamilias, Michel, who’s in his mid-60s, has been cooking his whole life, and while you could say he makes food, it feels more like an expression of love.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
And nor did I mistake for long Pierrot, much shriveled and with a shining pate I wanted to put my hand on, but still twinkly as ever and very much the paterfamilias.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
These dreams of bliss, put into facile verse yet adorned with a certain poetic gravity, caused some anxiety among the paterfamiliases.
From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
It is the so-called decent people, the noble paterfamiliases, the irreproachable husbands, the loving brothers.
From Yama: the pit by Bernard Guilbert Guerney
Jhabvala’s early fiction sauntered into middle-class Hindu households and wryly took the measure of their dramatic capacity: shy newlyweds and demanding mothers-in-law, pompous patresfamilias, feckless sons, and snooping aunties.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
Only Bryce Gill as the good brother and, at times, Philip Goodwin as various patresfamilias rise above the blustery racket that engulfs the rest of the seven-member cast.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2011
Isn't it rather the fault of the audience, of your respectable residents, your patresfamilias?
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
And what do our patresfamilias, the officials, the wives and daughters, do in such cases?
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Vocabulary lists containing paterfamilias
Ancient Rome - Middle School and High School
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The Roman Republic, Lessons 3–4
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"The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne" by Anthony Trollope
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