Definitions for polygamist
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1. polygamistnoun

   someone who is married to two or more people at the same time

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1. polygamistnoun

   One who practices polygamy, or maintains its lawfulness.

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1. Polygamistnoun

   One that holds the lawfulness of more wives than one at a time.

   Etymology: from polygamy.

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1. polygamist

   Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία (polugamía) "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married to more than one wife at the same time, sociologists call this polygyny. When a woman is married to more than one husband at a time, it is called polyandry. In contrast to polygamy, monogamy is marriage consisting of only two parties. Like "monogamy", the term "polygamy" is often used in a de facto sense, applied regardless of whether a state recognizes the relationship. In sociobiology and zoology, researchers use polygamy in a broad sense to mean any form of multiple mating. Worldwide, different societies variously encourage, accept or outlaw polygamy. In societies which allow or tolerate polygamy, in the vast majority of cases the form accepted is polygyny. According to the Ethnographic Atlas Codebook (1998), of 1,231 societies noted, 588 had frequent polygyny, 453 had occasional polygyny, 186 were monogamous and 4 had polyandry – although more recent research suggests that polyandry may occur more commonly than previously thought. In cultures which practice polygamy, its prevalence among that population often correlates with social class and socioeconomic status.From a legal point of view, in many countries, although the law only recognises monogamous marriages (a person can only have one spouse, and bigamy is illegal), adultery is not illegal, leading to a situation of de facto polygamy being allowed, although without legal recognition for non-official "spouses". Scientific studies classify the human mating system as primarily monogamous, with the cultural practice of polygamy in the minority, based both on surveys of world populations, and on characteristics of human reproductive physiology.Polygamy (taking the form of polygyny) is most common in a region known as the "polygamy belt" in West Africa and Central Africa, with the countries estimated to have the highest polygamy prevalence in the world being Burkina Faso, Mali, Gambia, Niger and Nigeria.

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1. polygamist

   A polygamist is a person who is married to more than one spouse at the same time. This practice is common in certain cultures and religions. Often, the term polygamist refers to someone who is part of a polygamous marriage where one man has multiple wives, but it can also refer to other forms of concurrent marriages.

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1. Polygamistadjective

   one who practices polygamy, or maintains its lawfulness

2. Etymology: [Cf. F. polygamiste, polygame, Gr. , a.]

Matched Categories

1. • Spouse

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How to pronounce polygamist?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of polygamist in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of polygamist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of polygamist in a Sentence

1. H. L. Mencken:

   Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

2. Sound Choices Coalition:

   This is abhorrent to us, many polygamist victims and other Utahn's who recognize that religious polygamy, as practiced in Utah and around the country, is responsible for many serious human rights violations, most who are living in these fundamentalist polygamous groups and families, are treated as property, forced to work without pay, traded as daughters, coerced into having unwanted sex, and into giving birth to numerous children they can not care for.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=polygamist
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Polygamist
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=polygamist
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamist
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polygamist
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=polygamist