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Noun
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.
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