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a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 51 Primaeval Sages or antepatriarchal Saracens.

1823 C. Burton Bardiad (ed. 2) 189 To establish the truth of the position assumed in the lines above quoted, we need not elaborate a proof of the ante-patriarchal date of the wonderful poem of Job.

1891 J. S. Stuart-Glennie in L. M. J. Garnett Women of Turkey II. 574 The Marriage sine conventione of the Romans may be regarded as..a survival of the Matriarchal, or at least of the Ante-Patriarchal, Marriage.

1900 H. J. Nieboer Slavery as Industr. Syst. i. i. 24 The adherents of the matriarchal theory have assigned to the Roman-like agnatic family its place as a later product of history; but to the question as to how children were treated in an ante-patriarchal state of culture they have not given much attention.

2008 S. R. Wilf Law Before Law iii. 86 Abraham was portrayed by commentators as resolving certain of the conundrums of the ante-Patriarchal world.