Patriarch vs Patrimony - What's the difference?
patriarch | patrimony |
(Christianity) The highest form of bishop, in the ancient world having authority over other bishops in the province but now generally as an honorary title; in Roman Catholicism, considered a bishop second only to the Pope in rank.
In Biblical contexts, a male leader of a family, tribe or ethnic group, especially one of the twelve sons of Jacob (considered to have created the twelve tribes of Israel) or (in plural) Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts II:
A founder of a political or religious movement, an organization or an enterprise.
An old leader of a village or community.
* 1819 , ”:
The male head of a tribal line or family.
A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.
Formerly, a church estate or endowment.
As nouns the difference between patriarch and patrimony
is that patriarch is patriarch while patrimony is a right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.patriarch
English
(wikipedia patriarch)Noun
(en noun)- Men and brethren, lett me frely speake unto you of the patriarke David: For he is both deed and buryed, and his sepulcre remayneth with us unto this daye.
- The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning to night, just moving sufficiently to