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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as monogamous.

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  • adjective monogamous, of or relating to monogamy

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Examples

  • There exists between the aesthetic fact and a human institution (such as monogamic marriage or the fief) a difference to some extent comparable with that between simple and compound bodies in chemistry.

    Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

  • "monogamic," and mean by the name the union of one man and one woman, in aim at least for life, and their children.

    The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

  • That rankled the Circle City King, for man is not by nature monogamic, and he forgot both Madeline and Freda in the new quest.

    The Wife of a King 2010

  • I think some free lover is trying to break up their monogamic heaven with modern love-theories.

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • The vast majority of individuals must be held to law and labor by the monogamic institution, or by a stern, rigid marriage institution of some sort.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • “Then what becomes of your boasted monogamic marriage institution of Western civilization?”

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • The faithfulness of the monogamic couples I have referred to may be explained as a matter of habit; but my long desire for the Swift One cannot be so explained, any more than can be explained the undying enmity between me and Red-Eye.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • And the many monogamic generations out of which he has descended would fail to prevent polygamy did another woman chance to strand on that particular isle.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • That rankled the Circle City King, for man is not by nature monogamic, and he forgot both Madeline and Freda in the new quest.

    The Wife of a King 2010

  • Also, there were several other young people, progeny of the monogamic couples that lived in the neighborhood, and Lop-Ear played with these young people.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

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