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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare, archaic or dialectal) The state of being a father; fatherhood..
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.
That the Aeschylean Oresteia turns on the conflict between motherdom and fatherdom is notorious.
Bachofen, the protagonist of the "mother-right" theory in the last century, observed that "motherdom is related to the idea of the day-bearing night, as fatherdom is to light sprung from the union of the sun with mother night."
Use fatherdom when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fatherdom means (rare, archaic or dialectal) The state of being a father; fatherhood..
Common synonyms include fatherhood.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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