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community or group, ( ); Reigning over all of
this activity was the family matriarch, 98-year-old Betty Alley;
• (patriarch)- a person regarded as the father or founder of an order, class,
etc., ( ); Thus Abraham Lincoln
writes of himself as a patriarch, and no doubt sincerely thought that he was,
at a time when he had just reached forty. — George Washington;
• (misogamy)- hatred of marriage; Extreme poverty, high mortality rates
related to malnutrition and childbirth; and a culture of misogamy are still
bleak features of everyday life in Afghanistan;
• (misogynist)- hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women, ( ); The
common notion that Milton's own melancholy experience had made him a
purblind misogynist is a complete mistake. — Milton;
• (polygamist)- a person who practices or favors polygamy, ( ); This
English polygamist has been more successful in seeking solitude than in
avoiding notoriety. — Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and
America;