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matrist, n. and a. Psychol.|ˈmætrɪst, ˈmeɪtrɪst|
[f. matri- + -ist.]
A. n. A person whose behaviour or attitude is influenced or dominated by the mother. Cf. patrist n.2
B. adj. Pertaining to or exhibiting such influence or domination.
1949G. R. Taylor Conditions of Happiness vi. 114 Social history is, in fine, a story of the struggle of matrists (if I may borrow a word and provide it with a feminine form) against the rigid, authoritarian, puritanical, guilt-burdened rule of patrists. 1953― Sex in Hist. iv. 77 It would be tedious to refer continually to persons who have modelled themselves on their fathers. I shall therefore speak of them as patrists, while those who have modelled themselves on a mother-figure I shall call matrists. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 11 June 390/1 Matrist and patrist tendencies appear in all periods of history. 1968P. B. Austin On being Swedish xx. 142 Sweden today..bears all the hallmarks of a matrist society. |