Definition of "patriarchic" []

• Patriarchal. (adjective)

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• "It preserves the patriarchic walled garden hierarchy of app-lockin and single-vendor-mediated consumer experience!"
• "So just as we must shake such ingrained, patriarchic theories in animal biology, we must also reconsider the models we have for thinking about, understand, and relate to information in the flow of activity streams."
• "It is true that Indian society always has been a patriarchic society with males being the head of the family, but so is the case with all the other cultures -- eastern or western."