AGAPEMONE


Meaning of AGAPEMONE in English

ˌagəˈpemə(ˌ)nē noun

( -s )

Usage: often capitalized

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

: a free-love institution

allow Christopher to run an Agapemone in what was after all her own house — F.M.Ford

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