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polygamist

/puh-lig-uh-mist/US // pəˈlɪg ə mɪst //

一夫多妻制,多妻制,多配偶制,多配偶制者

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who practices or favors polygamy.

Examples

  • 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.

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

  • In 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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