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Noun
1. patrilineal system; patriliny
Wikipedia definition
2. PatrilinealityPatrilineality (or agnatic kinship) is a system in which one belongs to one's father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritance of property, names or titles through the male line as well. A patriline is literally a father line; one's patriline is one's father and his father and his father... and so on. The two corresponding adjective forms are patrilineal and father-line.
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