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Monogamist

Monogamist \Mo*nog"a*mist\, n. One who practices or upholds monogamy.
--Goldsmith.

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monogamist

n. A person who practices monogamy

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monogamist

n. someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time) [syn: monogynist]

Usage examples of "monogamist".

Before the sun was well up I visited a number of the Aino lodges, saw the bear, and the chief, who, like all the rest, is a monogamist, and, after breakfast, at my request, some of the old men came to give me such information as they had.

And he, though he was a strict monogamist with a better half waiting for him in New York, longed to crush her sun-clad body to his Puritan cloth.

The other motif this tale seems to play with is the Bluebeard myth of the suitor who is actually a serial monogamist and a serial killer, with the bodies of previous brides stored in his dungeon.

She liked to say she was a serial monogamist with attention deficit disorder.

None the less, the monogamists, after due reflection, will point out that if there are widowers enough the superfluous women are not really superfluous, and therefore there is no reason why the parties should not marry respectably like other people.

The married life of most animals is strictly moral, and most of them are monogamists and have reached the highest form of family association and life.

Or are we basically a society of serial monogamists with a fundamental need to refresh our love lives periodically?

The husband and wife merely deceive people by pretending to be monogamists, while living polygamously.

If the Christian Socialists have a right to their God, and monogamists to their eternal marriage, then surely in a revolutionary movement like ours, the complete revolutionists have, to say the least, an equal right to their agnosticism and their free union.

We're Monogamists, you seeā€”both of us, and vows sealed with death pledges.