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polygamy [pol-ig-a-mee] Noun the practice of having more than one wife or husband at the same time [Greek polus many + gamos marriage] polygamist n polygamous adj polygamy the condition of having more than two spouses simultaneously. — polygamist, n. — polygamous, adj. See also: Crimethe practice or state of being married to more than one person at a time. — polygamous, adj. See also: Marriage
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Passepartout was now the only person left in the car, and the Elder, looking him full in the face, reminded him that, two years after the assassination of Joseph Smith, the inspired prophet, Brigham Young, his successor, left Nauvoo for the banks of the Great Salt Lake, where, in the midst of that fertile region, directly on the route of the emigrants who crossed Utah on their way to California, the new colony, thanks to the polygamy practised by the Mormons, had flourished beyond expectations. No one can appreciate the peace, the holy satisfaction of monogamy till he has passed through the wasting distractions, the unrest of polygamy. Polygamy, which once prevailed among them to a great extent, was now rarely indulged. |
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