polygamist
a person who practices or favors polygamy.
Origin of polygamist
1Other words from polygamist
- po·lyg·a·mis·tic, adjective
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How to use polygamist in a sentence
The artist formerly known as President Fitz is slated to bring the infamous polygamist to life in an upcoming Lifetime movie.
Like me, he no longer believed that Joseph Smith, the polygamist founder of the Mormon church, was a prophet of God.
A Brigham Young University Professor’s Escape from Mormonism | Lynn K. Wilder | October 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTaylor himself was an open polygamist and on many occasions he encouraged Liberian men to take up multiple wives.
McArthur Taylor, Son of War Criminal Charles Taylor, Defends His Father | Gboko Stewart | September 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn turn, they risk being labeled as “pligs,” a slang term outsiders reserve for polygamist families.
The Warren Jeffs child sex trial began with a shock: The polygamist will represent himself—with help from God.
Of such domestic slaves more than one is allowed; so that as far as the Nascopi recognizes marriage at all, he is a polygamist.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies | Robert Gordon LathamA polygamist, so long as he remains such, cannot become spiritual, n. 347.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love | Emanuel SwedenborgOn cross-examination, it turned out that he had twelve wives, and he was informed that a polygamist could not be a Christian.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) | Robert G. IngersollI was very much pleased with his talk, but, suspecting him to be a polygamist, I asked him as to the number of his wives.
By Canoe and Dog-Train | Egerton Ryerson YoungHe was the absconding polygamist for whom the tobacco-chewing female had ventured all the way from Chalk-Leod.
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