单词 | pantagamy |
释义 | pantagamyn. U.S. Now historical. A communal system of marriage in which all the men and women of a household or community are regarded as married to each other, formerly practised by the Perfectionist community at Oneida, New York State (1848–79). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > group-marriage pantagamy1852 hetaerism1870 marriage1870 group marriage1880 punalua1922 1852 J. Nichol Amer. Lit. i. 20 The American mind delights in..social and political experiments, as Shakerism, Mormonism, Pantagamy. 1867 W. H. Dixon New Amer. II. 451 The rights of polygamy, of celibacy, of pantagamy. 1894 Q. Rev. Oct. 311 Has not Oneida Creek invented ‘Complex Marriage’ or Pantagamy? 1981 L. J. Kern Ordered Love iii. 64 The necessity for romantic selfishness was latently expressed in a misconstrued description of the functioning of pantagamy in the Oneida Community penned by the free-love critic John Ellis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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