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Meaning of COENOGAMY

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\C[oe]*nog"a*my\, n. [Gr. ?; ? common + ? marraige.]
The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual
intercourse among its members; -- as in certain primitive
tribes or communistic societies. [Written also {cenogamy}.]
 

 

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