polygamic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of polygamic
First recorded in 1810–20; polygam(y) + -ic
Example Sentences
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“We don’t know if that is the result of men becoming widows and having sequential spouses or, much the contrary, polygamic practices,” Dr. Rihuete-Herrada, a co-author of the genetic study, said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
This is the solid fact underlying the more hazardous statement, so often made, that woman is monogamic and man polygamic.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
Side by side with these long secular changes, he evolved the family, communal or patriarchal, polygamic or monogamous.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen
Can the wife in any sort of polygamic arrangement, or a woman of no assured status, attain to the maternal possibilities of the ideal monogamic wife?
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
We have seen that monogamy was coequal with civilization, and that most probably the majority of the males had but one wife, even among polygamic nations.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
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