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单词 mother-right
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mother-rightn.

Brit. /ˈmʌðərʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈməðə(r)ˌraɪt/
Forms: see mother n.1 and right n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mother n.1, right n.
Etymology: < mother n.1 + right n. In sense 2 after German Mutterrecht (J. J. Bachofen 1861, in Das Mutterrecht: eine Untersuchung über die Gynaikokratie der alten Welt nach ihrer religiösen u. rechtlichen Natur).
1. A right held through or in respect of one's mother, a natural right. Obsolete.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > right or moral entitlement > native
mother-right?a1607
birthrighta1643
natural right1647
?a1607 R. Greene & H. Chettle John of Bordeaux (1936) 45 I hope thy prayers in furi of the fyght Will do me good to gayne my mother righte.
1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith vii. 54 Christ hath covenant-right to the Promises, by this Mother right, that God is his God by covenant.
2. The custom by which dynastic succession passes only in the female line. Cf. matriarchy n.
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society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > [noun] > matriarchy or matriarchalism
mother-right1881
matriarchalism1884
matriarchate1884
matriarchy1885
metrocracy1888
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent > side > female line or side > custom of succession on
mother-right1907
1881 L. H. Morgan Contrib. N. Amer. Ethnol. 66 The mother-right and gyneocracy among the Iroquois.
1907 Q. Rev. July 195 Matriarchy, or rule of the mother, is not to be confused with mother-right, or rule through the mother.
1971 K. Millett Sexual Politics (1972) ii. iii. 111 Engels constructed a series of stages in social or family history, passing by degrees from matriarchy (mother-right) through a succession of sexual associations.
1992 P. G. Allen Sacred Hoop (new ed.) 11 The Keres Pueblos..are among the last surviving Mother-Right peoples on the planet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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