Monogamy Sentence Examples

The biggest part of a committed relationship is monogamy.

Monogamy, as is remarked above, is assumed in Proverbs to be the recognized custom.

What is certain is that the definite assumption of monogamy is found only in such late books as Ben-Sira (Ecclesiasticus), Tobit and Judith.

Female saints, too, are held in high honour; and the Berber pays his wife the compliment of monogamy.

Every survey ever done on this question shows a high percentage of people think monogamy is important to marriage and that affairs are wrong.

Most Anabaptists, however, practiced a virtuous monogamy and avoided all immorality.

All partner life-styles are equal, but some are more equal than others, and life-long monogamy is not among them them.

He pointed out that even in societies which allow polygamy, monogamy is still the most universally prevalent form of marriage.

The practice of polyamory can vary widely with the participants -- just like monogamy!

One girl was eliminated because she had a problem with monogamy.

The half-serpent Cadmus brought knowledge of mines, agriculture, and the " Cadmean " letters, while Cecrops inculcated laws and ways of life and was the first to establish monogamy.

But she too regarded monogamy as the natural state of grace, while hoping that even flighty ladies might attain it.

To say that monogamy allows a man to " play around " is a contradictory statement.

In the tract On Monogamy, chap. xi., he speaks of " the sacrament of monogamy."

She has also told Access Hollywood and Vanity Fair that she questions monogamy, saying if hubby Chris were to cheat, she just wouldn't want to know.

But was it a question of monogamy that lead to this celebrity shocking split up?

Some polyamorists argue that, since many other cultures embrace the idea of multiple partners, monogamy is an aberration.

While it takes a lot of support and time among the partners involved to make it work, many people have found it to be a good alternative to traditional monogamy.

Polyamorous relationships have different rules than monogamy.

He replied that he is continuing to "…pursue a life of serial monogamy with a very understanding woman in San Francisco."

Monogamy, however, seems to be the rule among the pastoral tribes, and polygamy is not unknown in Tibet, especially in the eastern parts of the country.

Of all his singular opinions the best known is his advocacy of clerical monogamy, immortalized in the Vicar of Wakefield.

Reid proposes to apply this principle in favour of monogamy, arguing from the proportion of males and females born; without explaining why, if the intention of nature hence inferred excludes occasional polygamy, it does not also exclude occasional celioacy.

Herein he divided the class A y es into two subclasses, to which he applied the names of Insessores and Grallatores (hitherto used by their inventors Vigors and Illiger in a different sense), in the latter work relying chiefly for this division on characters which had not before been used by any systematist, namely that in the former group monogamy generally prevailed and the helpless nestlings were fed by their parents, while the latter group were mostly polygamous, and the chicks at birth were active and capable of feeding themselves.

The supposition of a Solomonic authorship for Proverbs is excluded by the whole colouring of the book, in which monotheism and monogamy are assumed, without discussion, to be generally accepted, while in Solomon's time and by Solomon's self the worship of many gods and the taking of more than one wife were freely practised, without rebuke from priest or prophet.

Monogamy was the rule, and a childless wife might give her husband a maid (who was no wife) to bear him children, who were reckoned hers.

We observe, however, that Paley's method is often mixed with reasonings that belong to an alien and older manner of thought; as when he supports the claim of the poor to charity by referring to the intention of mankind "when they agreed to a separation of the common fund," or when he infers that monogamy is a part of the divine design from the equal numbers of males and females born.