Crossword-Solution: MONOGAMY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Monogamy | n. | Single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy. |
| Monogamy | n. | State of being paired with a single mate. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “MONOGAMY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Challenge for a playboy | 1 answer |
| Faithful practice | 1 answer |
| Faithfulness to one partner | 1 answer |
| Hoped-for trait in a spouse | 1 answer |
| MARRIAGE to one person at a time | 1 answer |
| Mormon doctrine since 1890 | 1 answer |
| One-man woman's practice | 1 answer |
| One-mate state | 1 answer |
| Policy for Mormons since 1890 | 1 answer |
| Practice of having only one wife or husband | 1 answer |
| Practice that isn't part of an open marriage | 1 answer |
| Singular espousal? | 1 answer |
| custom of being married to one person at a time | 1 answer |
| having only one spouse at a time | 1 answer |
| MARRIAGE, type of | 10 answers |
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Sentences with MONOGAMY (5)
Polygamy and monogamy, suttee, thuggism, and cannibalism, are all acceptable to the romancer, whose business is with the heart of a man in all times and places.
Plunged right away into monogamy, man, unexperienced in his good fortune, hankers after polygamy, as the monotheistic Jew hankered after polytheism; and thus the monogamic young man too often meets Aphrodite for the first time, and makes future appointments with her, in the arms of his pure young wife.
She added encomiums on the episcopal courage--hitherto there had been a rule of clerical monogamy--“neither a natural nor an expedient condition of things.
Like the porcupine I sate self collected, with a quill pointed against every opposer.’ ‘Well said, my boy,’ cried I, ‘and what subject did you treat upon? I hope you did not pass over the importance of Monogamy.
When one has given his heart to _Henry Esmond_ and the _Heart of Midlothian_ he is in a strait, and begins to doubt the expediency of literary monogamy.
Quotes with MONOGAMY (3)
Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland, I notice the ring that’s landed on your finger, a massiveinsect of glitter, a chandelier shining at the endof a long tunnel. Thirteen years ago, you hid the hurtin your voice under a blanket and said there’s two kindsof women — those you write poems aboutand those you don’t. It’s true. I never brought youa bouquet of sonnets, or served you haiku in bed. My idea of courtship was tapping Jane’s Addictionlyrics in Morse code on your window…
I surrendered my identity in your eyes. Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the waysomeone falling down in the street is funny. I entered a revolving door and emergedas a human being. When you think of meis my face electronically blurred? I remember your collarbone, forming the tiniestsatellite dish in the universe, your smileas the place where parallel lines inevitably crossed. Now dinosaurs freeze to death on your shoulder. I reme…
Monogamy is faith in the faithless
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Slate, WP.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1992–2024).