monogamist
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]monogamist (plural monogamists)
- A person who practices monogamy
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 2, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
- I maintained with Whiston, that it was unlawful for a priest of the church of England, after the death of his first wife, to take a second, or to express it in one word, I valued myself upon being a strict monogamist.