paterfamilias
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(noun) the male head of a household / (noun) the father of a family / (noun) a man who originates or is a leading figure in something (as a movement, discipline, or enterprise)
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paterfamilias
Speer knew Hitler as a "solicitous paterfamilias"
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In these early years of Don Carlos’s life, relations with the pater- familias were still good
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He is a man of about forty, Jewish, American, pleasant-looking, a bit of a paterfamilias.
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