Definition of Patriarchs

1. Noun. (plural of patriarch) ¹

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Definition of Patriarchs

1. patriarch [n] - See also: patriarch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Patriarchs

patriarch
patriarchal
patriarchal cross
patriarchalism
patriarchally
patriarchate
patriarchates
patriarchdom
patriarchdoms
patriarchial
patriarchic
patriarchically
patriarchies
patriarchism
patriarchisms
patriarchs (current term)
patriarchship
patriarchy
patriate
patriated
patriates
patriating
patriation
patriations
patricentric
patrician
patricianism
patricianisms
patricianly
patricians

Literary usage of Patriarchs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The other patriarchs who were displaced were not dangerous opponents. Weakened by the endless Monophysite quarrels, having lost most of their flocks, ..."

2. An Inquiry Into the Scriptural Views of Slavery by Albert Barnes (1857)
"Slavery in the time of the patriarchs. IN entering directly upon the question whether slavery, as before defined, is in accordance with the will of God, ..."

3. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1857)
"But such as thought the place in which the souls of the patriarchs did reside could ... Thus Gregory Nyssen still leaves the patriarchs in Abraham's bosom, ..."

4. The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman (1840)
"The patriarchs of Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome, and by a formal decree of the Council of Chalcedon, Constantinople, assumed even a higher dignity. ..."

5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, K. F. Th Schneider (1853)
"All connection between the two patriarchs was dissolved; ... They were of the opinion, that the Roman patriarchs could be justly recognized as orthodox and ..."

6. A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of by David Benedict (1813)
"The patriarchs of Alexandria have always avoided this submission to the Mahometan Sovereign. The rest yield to it; and on these terms more than two hundred ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"On the other hand, these Western minor patriarchs have never been supposed to be ... From this time the Bishops of Aquileia call themselves patriarchs, ..."

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