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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After six wives and eight children, he emerges as a smiling paterfamilias .
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As a paterfamilias , Charlemagne did well.
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In days to come as a staid married man and paterfamilias I shall remember my darling Lily with affection ....
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Mat, winsome, handsome, pipe-smoking paterfamilias , introduced us to the fishermen at the table.
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Then they became part of the family-Ellwood as paterfamilias .