Definition of "metronymic" []

• Variant of matronymic. (adjective)

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• "The frozen smile has to go too, along with the metronymic nodding, which sometimes goes on long enough to suggest a placement within the autism spectrum."
• "Some writers speak of it as a matriarchal period, but it does not appear that women governed; it is more proper to speak of the family as metronymic, for the children bore the mother's name and maternity outweighed paternity in social estimate."
• "Descent henceforth was reckoned in the paternal line, and society had become patronymic instead of metronymic."