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单词 Agapemone
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Agapemone

/ˌaɡəˈpiːməni/ /ˌaɡəˈpiːm(ə)ni/ /ˌaɡəˈpɛməni/
noun
1Chiefly with the. The headquarters of the religious sect founded by the Rev. Henry James Prince (1811–99) at Spaxton in Somerset in the mid 19th cent., or a similar establishment run by his successor, the Rev. John Hugh Smyth-Pigott (1852–1927), at Clapton, London; = Abode of Love. Now historical.
  • Both centres were associated with practice free love and polygamy; Prince's sexual behaviour in particular gave rise to a scandal and trial in the early 1860s when his licentiousness and that of his followers was condemned..
2 Generally. A community characterized by love, an ‘abode of love’; (in extended use) an occasion or situation characterized by the sharing of communal love or the practice of free love.

Origin

Mid 19th century; earliest use found in The Times. Irregularly from Hellenistic Greek ἀγάπη love + μονή dwelling, abode.

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