"motherdom" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mother + -dom.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1886, John Ferguson McLennan, Studies in ancient history",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1906, The Classical Review",
          "text": "That the Aeschylean Oresteia turns on the conflict between motherdom and fatherdom is notorious.",
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          "ref": "1908, Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, The American Journal of Psychology",
          "text": "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.\"",
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        "The world, sphere, or unity of mothers; mothers collectively."
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  "etymology_text": "From mother + -dom.",
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          "ref": "1886, John Ferguson McLennan, Studies in ancient history",
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        "The world, sphere, or unity of mothers; mothers collectively."
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