How to Use "paterfamilias" with Example Sentences

1. The paterfamilias household is no more .

2. The reverend frederick cavell was a stern victorian paterfamilias who ruled his family along strict christian lines : prayer , self-denial and duty to others .

3. As head of the family from the age of 22 , it was george 's job to watch over his brothers and sisters as both their monarch and paterfamilias .

4. Her name was helena goldenhagen , and she pleased this young paterfamilias of the bronx .

5. Economists have always tended to use a " household " model of decision-making , which treats domestic decisions as being made by one person - the kind of benign dictator with whom you , as paterfamilias , identify yourself .