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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"

—p.72 From The House of the Dead (69) by George Steiner
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In these early years of Don Carlos’s life, relations with the pater- familias were still good

—p.1 We Need a Usable Past for a Democratic Future (1) by Lizzie O'Shea
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6 years, 7 months ago


He was a leading-man type who was just over the line into paterfamilias roles and hating it.

—p.38 GUILTY REPOSE (3) by Norman Rush
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1 year ago


the Jewish paterfamilias was not the only figure that kept hovering behind your host’s well-padded shoulder

—p.150 The Genial Host (135) by Mary McCarthy
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1 year, 4 months ago


He is a man of about forty, Jewish, American, pleasant-looking, a bit of a paterfamilias.

—p.461 FREE WOMEN: 3 (353) by Doris Lessing
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2 years, 9 months ago


In short, I discovered that once a week, at her house, she betrayed me with a respectable paterfamilias, who, incidentally, was so infernally meticulous that he would bring his own shoe trees with him.

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—p.368 IN MEMORY OF L. I. SHIGAEV (368) by Vladimir Nabokov
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1 year, 8 months ago


who appears to play the role of a surrogate paterfamilias

—p.178 Fathers and Sons (176) by Jesse McCarthy
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1 year, 10 months ago


He was born in one of its North Shore suburbs; he was raised, reached adulthood, and became a paterfamilias as a “typical suburbanite.”

—p.688 Book Nine: Second Chance (688) by Studs Terkel
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2 years, 1 month ago