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US
/məˈnɑɡəmi/
]
[ UK /mənˈɒɡæmi/ ]
[ UK /mənˈɒɡæmi/ ]
NOUN
- the practice or state of having only one spouse at a time
How To Use monogamy In A Sentence
- Monogamy is universal but adultery frequent.
- Thus the expectations regarding the strength of sexual selection for polygyny, polyandry, and monogamy are fairly simple.
- My polygamist tendencies wouldn't jive with your inclination for monogamy.
- Maybe if we could be honest about sex, we could be honest about marriage and monogamy and family.
- Monogamy is universal but adultery frequent.
- Where fixed property became the chief form of livelihood, monogamy, rather than polygamy, came to predominate due to the need to limit heirs and to discourage divorce.
- The more likely explanation is that developmental changes occurred that involved greater solidifying of romantic relationships, making stable monogamy more possible.
- Prevention campaigns focus on monogamy and fidelity.
- Marriage, or any other form of promiscuous amoristic monogamy, is fatal to large States because it puts its ban on the deliberate breeding of man as a political animal. Maxims for Revolutionists
- But he delivered his most controversial views on marriage and monogamy. The Sun