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Example sentences for "monogamic"

Lexicographically close words:
monocotyledonous; monocotyledons; monocular; monody; monoecious; monogamous; monogamy; monogenists; monogram; monogrammed
  1. And he was introduced into the first stage of monogamic life, which he developed steadily and rapidly until he was freed.

  2. We know that there are some men to whom an ironclad monogamic relation is an absolute impossibility.

  3. The Greek philosopher erred in his delineation of an ideal government both by omitting therefrom the power of faith as the controlling principle thereof, and by denying the sanctity of monogamic marriage.

  4. Monogamic morality as a protection for family life means much more in America than in Europe.

  5. In other and familiar phrasing, there is widespread acceptance and practice of the so-called "double standard of sexual morality," a monogamic one for respectable women and promiscuity for many of their male relatives and friends.

  6. As illustrations of our adherence to monogamic law, let me give some facts for comparison of America and continental Europe.

  7. There is something higher than conventional morality for the reason that, while natural sexual union in monogamic marriage is never legally or ecclesiastically immoral, it is very often far from ideal.

  8. There are many problems of sex in relation to society, particularly in relation to monogamic marriage, that young people should be led to consider in the late teens and early twenties.

  9. The one great fact is that our national code of morality is a monogamic one, approved as ideal even by many of those who fail to live strictly in harmony with its dictates.

  10. Sexual morality has had changeable standards, and in other times and countries custom has made polygamy and promiscuity acceptable as moral; but the monogamic ideal of morality now prevails in the world's best life.

  11. In short, the alarming problem of the social diseases results from masculine promiscuity or the failure of men to adhere to the monogamic standards of morality.

  12. Can scientific education hope to solve the sexual problems of society by inculcating such fear of venereal diseases that men will remain true to the monogamic code of morality?

  13. To many it is a significant fact that we now find numerous young men and women ready to stand for super-morality as a foundation for monogamic marriage.

  14. Hence, all Americans who are prominently interested in sex-education believe that it should aim to make our young people more ready to accept and understand morality according to the monogamic ideal.

  15. The hygienic, ethical, and psychical laws that promote physical and mental health in monogamic marriage.

  16. As compared with the Oriental nations, the family was monogamic and noted for purity and virtue.

  17. Marriage was a prominent social institution among the tribes, as it always is where the monogamic family prevails.

  18. Monogamic marriage and the exclusive home life prevailed at an early time.

  19. According to this the monogamic equilibrium is not seriously interfered with.

  20. Under normal conditions the numbers of persons of both sexes are almost equal, which everywhere points to monogamic marriage.

  21. Among the rural population in the orient the conditions favoring monogamic marriage are still more striking.

  22. How little the present family form and monogamic marriage can be regarded as eternal or exceedingly ancient, can furthermore be gathered from the wide-spread existence of marriage by purchase, marriage by rape, polygamy and polyandry.

  23. Monogamic marriage as has been sufficiently shown, is the outcome of the system of gain and property that has been established by bourgeois society, and therefore undoubtedly forms one of its basic principles.

  24. But we overlook the fact that only ~very few men~ belonging to the ~ruling class~ can afford to maintain a harem, while the great mass of men live in monogamic marriage.

  25. If prostitution is the complement of monogamic marriage on the one hand, adultery of wives and cuckoldom of husbands are its complements on the other.

  26. Though the Bulgarian is monogamic he submits his wife to an almost harem discipline.

  27. There are as well many examples of monogamic unions lasting for the lives of the partners.

  28. To do this we must first clear our minds from the belief that regards our present form of monogamic marriage as ordained by Nature and sanctified by God.

  29. It is as old as monogamic marriage, and maybe the result of that form of the sexual relationship, and not, as some have held, a survival of primitive sexual licence.

  30. An animal belonging to a species habitually monogamic may easily change under the pressure of external causes and adopt polygamy, and, in some cases, polyandry.

  31. To say that this unit is exclusive and monogamic is simply saying that it respects its own personality.

  32. Sex antagonism can do much to impoverish and ruin individual lives; but the monogamic and persistent union of lovers, surrounded by their children, will easily survive all the mistakes of a time of transition.

  33. The lady who has married and managed five husbands must be much more expert at it than most monogamic ladies; and as a companion and counsellor she probably leaves them nowhere.

  34. It is well, however, to consider not only the negative but the affirmative side of the social inheritance of the patriarchal family, in which has grown up and developed the ideal of monogamic marriage.

  35. Or do all those who advocate the abolition of illegitimacy take the ground, which some of them definitely do, that the monogamic family is obsolete and that the state in its corporate capacity should take full charge of all children?

  36. To the present writer it seems clear that the monogamic family holds its title clear to social preservation on both these points.

  37. In the individualistic family of the modern monogamic type the chief need is for every child to have brothers and sisters or at least a brother or sister.

  38. There are many economic and educational requirements yet to be met in order to protect and maintain the accepted ideal of monogamic marriage.

  39. Has the monogamic family, as now outlined and legalized, any elements inherently inimical to a democratic order of society?

  40. Many also believe that no form of sex-association secures such possibilities of moral discipline and personal satisfaction as does the guarded relationship of monogamic marriage.

  41. To have more men in a given locality than can possibly have wives or more women than can possibly marry under the monogamic system is to derange its workings.

  42. In the monogamic system of the family what, in general, has been the legal responsibility toward blood kin?

  43. As I have said, virtue and chastity wither under the monogamic system.

  44. Virtue and chastity wither beneath the monogamic institution, which was borrowed from the pagan nations by the early Christians.

  45. The great German reformer, Luther, although perhaps himself free from the lasciviousness of the old priesthood was not strictly monogamic in principle.

  46. A girl reared under the monogamic system may look with abhorrence on ours; our young women do not do so.

  47. The monogamic system condemns millions of women to celibacy.

  48. The existing monogamic relation is simply the outcome of the institution of private or individual property.

  49. Meanwhile, we ought to combat by every means within our power the metaphysical dogma of the inherent sanctity of the monogamic principle.

  50. Both legalised monogamic marriage and prostitution are based essentially on commercial considerations.

  51. Even against incest we seem to have rather an intense sentiment than a clear intuition; and it is generally recognised that the prohibition of all but monogamic unions can only be rationally maintained on utilitarian grounds.

  52. Meanwhile we ought to combat by every means within our power the metaphysical dogma of the inherent sanctity of the monogamic principle.

  53. There are few points on which advanced radicals and Socialists are more completely in accord than their hostility to the modern legal monogamic marriage.

  54. Seeing then that through monogamic marriage the Anglo-Saxon race must overwhelmingly flow now and in all the sighted future, we resolutely direct our attention to this institution as we find it.

  55. Comprising within her catholic embrace many varieties of monogamic marriage she possesses contrasts, comparisons, examples and warnings, which will be of infinite use in the Eugenist's laboratory.

  56. Eugenics is concerned primarily and materially with the normal sex relationship, which in modern civilised lands means the ordinary legal monogamic marriage.

  57. The ideal of a monogamic union has been established in a sense directly by the slur cast upon the free woman.

  58. Then what becomes of your boasted monogamic marriage institution of Western civilization?

  59. I think some free lover is trying to break up their monogamic heaven with modern love-theories.

  60. The vast majority of individuals must be held to law and labor by the monogamic institution, or by a stern, rigid marriage institution of some sort.

  61. You will find there ample proof that monogamic marriage is no more divine than--than polygamy or free love.

  62. It is doubtful if economic conditions can to any extent be shown to have equally reenforced the monogamic life.

  63. In Western civilization these take the form of the monogamic family and of private property.

  64. It is only in the monogamic family that the highest type of altruistic affection can be cultivated.

  65. The monogamic family alone produces affections and emotions of the higher type.

  66. In brief, the monogamic family presents such superior unity and harmony from every point of view that it is much more fitted to produce a higher type of culture.

  67. This primitive monogamy, however, as we have already seen, was not accompanied by the social, legal, and religious elements that the historic monogamic family has largely rested upon.

  68. The gradual development of the family on a patriarchal and largely monogamic basis rendered it more and more difficult for a woman to dispose of her own person.

  69. The natural human deviations from the monogamic order seem to be generally of this character, and largely conditioned by the social and economic environment.

  70. It is possible, indeed, that that fact led to the modification of the monogamic system in early developing periods of human history, when social expansion and cohesion were the primary necessities.

  71. This is the solid fact underlying the more hazardous statement, so often made, that woman is monogamic and man polygamic.

  72. Any radical modification of the existing monogamic order is not to be expected, even if it were generally recognized, which cannot be said to be the case, that it is desirable.

  73. The mere acceptance of a monogamic rule carries us but a little way.

  74. Monogamic marriage is a natural biological fact, alike in many animals and in man.

  75. The strictly small and confined monogamic family, however excellently it subserved the interests of the offspring, contained no promise of a wider social progress.

  76. It seems to some that the recognition of variations in sexual relationships, of the tendency of the monogamic to overpass its self-imposed bounds, is at best a sad necessity, and a lamentable fall from a high ideal.

  77. And Professor Lester Ward, in insisting on the strength of the monogamic sentiment in modern society, truly remarks (International Journal of Ethics, Oct.

  78. Don't you know that the triumph of Socialism will destroy the monogamic family?

  79. The family is the source of all monopolistic instincts, and your reign of moonshine brotherhood can never be brought to pass until you destroy monogamic marriage.

  80. Suppose these families to have been monogamic, after deducting husband and wife, we have the very respectable number of eighty-one children to each monogamic wife.

  81. The nation was founded in polygamy in the days of Jacob, and was continued in polygamy until they became very numerous, very great and very powerful, while here and there might be found a monogamic family--a man with one wife.

  82. Japan, Hindostan and all other polygamic nations do the same, and in very many respects they have as much right to say that of monogamic nations, as the latter have to say it of them.

  83. It was by the transgression of this first monogamist and his monogamic wife, that all mankind have to undergo the penalty of death.

  84. I can prove that the figures representing prostitution in monogamic countries are all overdrawn.

  85. But that old empire finds a resurrection in the Italians under Victor Emanuel and Garibaldi; and England, Germany and France are all proofs of the longevity of monogamic nations.

  86. Here then the rights of the first-born were acknowledged, in both polygamic and monogamic families, before the law under consideration was given.

  87. Even when polygamy was practiced, the monogamic affection was still predominant.

  88. In the time of Christ and the Apostles, the Jews had become substantially a monogamic nation.

  89. Kovalevsky's argument turns on the proposition that the patriarchal household is a typical stage of society, intermediate between the matriarchal and monogamic family.

  90. And thirdly, the German women were highly respected and also influenced public affairs, a fact directly opposed to monogamic male supremacy.

  91. The monogamic family became a power and lifted a threatening hand against the gens.

  92. His unlimited rule was emphasized and endowed with continuity by the downfall of matriarchy, the introduction of patriarchy, and the gradual transition from the pairing family to the monogamic family.


  93. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monogamic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.