polygamist

[ puh-lig-uh-mist ]

noun

1. a person who practices or favors polygamy.

Other Words From

• po·lyga·mistic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of polygamist¹

First recorded in 1630–40; polygam(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

The artist formerly known as President Fitz is slated to bring the infamous polygamist to life in an upcoming Lifetime movie.

From The Daily Beast

Like me, he no longer believed that Joseph Smith, the polygamist founder of the Mormon church, was a prophet of God.

From The Daily Beast

Taylor himself was an open polygamist and on many occasions he encouraged Liberian men to take up multiple wives.

From The Daily Beast

In turn, they risk being labeled as “pligs,” a slang term outsiders reserve for polygamist families.

From The Daily Beast

The Warren Jeffs child sex trial began with a shock: The polygamist will represent himself—with help from God.

From The Daily Beast

Of such domestic slaves more than one is allowed; so that as far as the Nascopi recognizes marriage at all, he is a polygamist.

From Project Gutenberg

A polygamist, so long as he remains such, cannot become spiritual, n. 347.

From Project Gutenberg

On cross-examination, it turned out that he had twelve wives, and he was informed that a polygamist could not be a Christian.

From Project Gutenberg

I was very much pleased with his talk, but, suspecting him to be a polygamist, I asked him as to the number of his wives.

From Project Gutenberg

He was the absconding polygamist for whom the tobacco-chewing female had ventured all the way from Chalk-Leod.

From Project Gutenberg