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agapemone

noun, often capitalized
ag·​a·​pem·​o·​ne | \ ËŒa-gÉ™-ˈpe-mÉ™-(ËŒ)nÄ“\
plural -s

Definition of agapemone

: a free-love institution allow Christopher to run an Agapemone in what was after all her own house— F. M. Ford

First Known Use of agapemone

1860, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for agapemone

from Agapemone, a communistic establishment that was founded about 1849 at Spaxton, England, and had a reputation for immoral behavior, irregular from Greek agapē love + monē stopping place, from menein to remain

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