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Monogamy
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Example Sentences
- His goal in this chaste romance is avoidance of the monotony that monogamy presumably brings.
- Dim sum frees you from culinary monogamy, never asking you to commit.
- After 28 years of polygamous marriage, Spencer has lived the last 19 years in monogamy.
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World English Dictionary
| monogamy (mɒˈnɒɡəmɪ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | bigamy polygamy Compare digamy the state or practice of having only one husband or wife over a period of time |
| 2. | zoology the practice of having only one mate |
| [C17: via French from Late Latin monogamia, from Greek; see | |
| mo'nogamous | |
| —adj | |
| mo'nogamously | |
| —adv | |
| mo'nogamousness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
monogamy
1610s, from Fr. monogamie, from L.L. monogamia, from Gk. monogamia, from monogamos "marrying only once," from monos "single, alone" + gamos "marriage."
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
monogamy mo·nog·a·my (mə-nŏg'ə-mē)
n.
The practice or condition of being married to only one person at a time.
The condition of having only one mate.
mo·nog'a·mous adj.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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monogamy
the custom that allows a person to be legally married to only one spouse at one time. Appearing in two general forms, monogamy may imply a lifelong contract between two individuals that may be broken only under penalty-as prevails in the Roman Catholic and Hindu prescriptions for marriage-or it may imply that persons are required to be monogamous but may change spouses repeatedly, a practice sometimes called serial monogamy.
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