|
|
Definition of Monogynic
1. Adjective. Having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monogynic
Literary usage of Monogynic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Historical Jurisprudence by Paul Vinogradoff (1920)
"Ethnology shows us a similar dualism, with the difference that the regular,, more
or less monogynic, unions of the savages, the appropriation of young women ..."
2. Scottish Song: Its Wealth, Wisdom, and Social Significance by John Stuart Blackie (1889)
"... than what in the physical world we call attraction,— the power which gives
electric affinities in the laboratory of the chemist, and the monogynic and ..."
3. Government Or Human Evolution by Edmond Kelly (1900)
"Indeed, it has been already carefully pointed out that if we compare the polyandrous
or monogynic races of the ..."
4. An Analysis of the Proposals and Conceptions of Socialism: Three Addresses by Max Hirsch (1920)
"Who can doubt that the ultimate results of these changes would be destructive of
the monogynic family as we know it; that they would lead to the utmost ..."
Other Resources:
