fatherdom en · NOUN
Etymology
From father + -dom.
Meanings
- (archaic, dialectal, rare, uncountable) The state of being a father; fatherhood.
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(uncountable) The world, sphere, or unity of fathers; fathers collectively.
That the Aeschylean Oresteia turns on the conflict between motherdom and fatherdom is notorious.
1906, The Classical Review:Lastly, religion is represented as fostering the cause of women, chiefly through its mysteries assigning a divine character, as it were, to motherdom as compared with fatherdom.
1886, John Ferguson McLennan, Studies in ancient history:Bachofen, the protagonist of the "mother-right" theory in the last century, observed that "motherdom is related to the idea of the day-bearing night, as fatherdom is to light sprung from the union of the sun with mother night."
1908, Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, The American Journal of Psychology: