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agamist

agamist noun: an unmarried person celibate by choice.

Noun

agamist (plural agamists)

  1. An unmarried person celibate by choice.
    • After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a...1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28

Forms of agamist

pluralagamists

Origin of agamist

From agamy + -ist.

Questions about agamist

What does agamist mean?
Agamist means an unmarried person celibate by choice.
What part of speech is agamist?
Agamist is a noun.
What is the plural of agamist?
The plural of agamist is agamists.

Words near agamist in the dictionary

  1. agamid
  2. Agamidis
  3. agamids
  4. agamies
  5. agamis
  6. agamist
  7. agamists
  8. agammaglobulinaemia
  9. agammaglobulinaemias
  10. agammaglobulinaemic
  11. agammaglobulinaemics

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