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Fatherdom

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being a father; fatherhood. archaic, dialectal, rare, uncountable
  2. 2
    The world, sphere, or unity of fathers; fathers collectively. uncountable

    "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."

Etymology

From father + -dom.

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