polygamist

American  

[puh-lig-uh-mist] / pəˈlɪg ə mɪst /

noun

1. a person who practices or favors polygamy.

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Other Word Forms

• polygamistic adjective

Etymology

Origin of polygamist

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

Example Sentences

Since polygamist marriages are not legally recognized in the United States, the “spiritual unions” usually end with an announcement rather than a divorce or legal filing.

From Los Angeles Times

The leaders of the so-called men's conferences have been polygamists - seen by some as people who go against the grain, against societal pressures, to do what they want to do.

From BBC

And the colony’s two leaders were polygamists whose “plural wives” accompanied them to California.

From Los Angeles Times

A university professor, Ata Aidoo won many literary awards including the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Changes, a love story about a statistician who divorces her first husband and enters into a polygamist marriage.

From BBC

We wring our hands like maiden aunts as they mosey blithely into danger: What could possibly go wrong in this cobwebbed basement/cabin in the woods/polygamist doomsday cult?

From New York Times