agamyn.

Brit.

/ˈaɡəmi/, U.S.

/ˈæɡəmi/

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek ἀγαμία.

Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek ἀγαμία celibacy < ancient Greek ἄγαμος unmarried (see agamous adj.) + -ία -y suffix³; compare -gamy comb. form.

Absence of marriage; the state or condition of being unmarried. Also: lack of acknowledgement of, or opposition to, the institution of marriage.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > absence or non-recognition of marriage

agamy1678

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Coll. Affected Words sig. Eee Agamie, (Greek) a being unmarried.

1795 in tr. C. M. Wieland Dialogues of Gods Pref. 2 Men..who would substitute atheism to faith, agamy to matrimony, and anarchy to government.

1796 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 21 492 A fortunate attack on Plato's system of agamy... [convincing the world] that each should confine himself to a single companion for life;..that he should submit to..marriage.

1865 W. Griffiths Jrnl. ii, in Polit. Missions Bootan 160 The causes of this scantiness in population exist in polyandry and one of its opposites agamy.

1898 Lit. World 25 Mar. 271/3 The theory that agamy, a state in which marriage and the family are unknown, is the natural condition of man.

1959 Amer. Anthropologist 61 562 Possible modes of affiliation may also be narrowed by group agamy and endogamy.

1999 J. Glavin After Dickens i. i. 42 The novel..indicts any woman who..would try to remove herself from the plot of heterosexual subjugation... Another way to say all this..is to claim that Bleak House can find no viable mode for agamy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	agamy
释义	agamyn. Brit. /ˈaɡəmi/, U.S. /ˈæɡəmi/ Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek ἀγαμία. Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek ἀγαμία celibacy < ancient Greek ἄγαμος unmarried (see agamous adj.) + -ία -y suffix³; compare -gamy comb. form. Absence of marriage; the state or condition of being unmarried. Also: lack of acknowledgement of, or opposition to, the institution of marriage. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > absence or non-recognition of marriage agamy1678 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Coll. Affected Words sig. Eee Agamie, (Greek) a being unmarried. 1795 in tr. C. M. Wieland Dialogues of Gods Pref. 2 Men..who would substitute atheism to faith, agamy to matrimony, and anarchy to government. 1796 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 21 492 A fortunate attack on Plato's system of agamy... [convincing the world] that each should confine himself to a single companion for life;..that he should submit to..marriage. 1865 W. Griffiths Jrnl. ii, in Polit. Missions Bootan 160 The causes of this scantiness in population exist in polyandry and one of its opposites agamy. 1898 Lit. World 25 Mar. 271/3 The theory that agamy, a state in which marriage and the family are unknown, is the natural condition of man. 1959 Amer. Anthropologist 61 562 Possible modes of affiliation may also be narrowed by group agamy and endogamy. 1999 J. Glavin After Dickens i. i. 42 The novel..indicts any woman who..would try to remove herself from the plot of heterosexual subjugation... Another way to say all this..is to claim that Bleak House can find no viable mode for agamy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1678
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