What's the difference between monogamist and monogynist?

Monogamist


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  • (n.) One who practices or upholds monogamy.

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  • (1) The awful truth is that I'm like a serial monogamist when it comes to my reading.
  • (2) He won his first Oscar for audio on Apocalypse Now (remember how the helicopter blades blur into the syncopated chop of the ceiling fan ), won a couple more for work on The English Patient (Murch is a serial monogamist, loyal to Lucas and Coppola, Minghella and Mendes).
  • (3) The CAFN 1 survey shows that wives of polygynists tend to be older than those of monogamists.
  • (4) Because of this the reported mean number of children ever born was higher for the wives of polygynists than for the wives of monogamists.

Monogynist


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