monogamist

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‘The Bolter’ In the novels of the British writer Nancy Mitford, it’s a nickname given to the narrator’s mother, a serial monogamist who cycles through relationships.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

A self-professed serial monogamist, he lives alone, but his girlfriend lives next door, and is fully on board with his cause.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

The serial monogamist seeks a lost paradise pathologically, in a series of echoes, in diminishing returns.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

We live in a society that has been monogamist, for better or worse, for a very long time.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2019

Parson Adams will not be forgotten, nor that gentle monogamist, the good Vicar of Wakefield.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various