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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Monogamy \Mo*nog"a*my\, n. [L. monogamia, Gr. ?: cf. F.
     monogamie.]
     1. 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}.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Zool.) State of being paired with a single mate.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  monogamy
       n : having only one spouse at a time [syn: {monogamousness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "monogamy":
     beena marriage, bigamy, common-law marriage, companionate marriage,
     concubinage, deuterogamy, left-handed marriage, levirate,
     leviration, love match, marriage of convenience, monandry,
     monogyny, morganatic marriage, picture marriage, polyandry,
     polygamy, polygyny, trial marriage, trigamy
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MONOGAMY. A marriage contracted between one man and one woman, in exclusion 
  of all the rest of mankind; it is used in opposition to bigamy and polygamy. 
  (q.v.) Wolff, Dr. de la Nat. Sec. 857. The state of having only one husband 
  or one wife at one time. 
  
  

















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