| 释义 |
polygamypo‧lyg‧a‧my /pəˈlɪɡəmi/ noun [uncountable]   - Federal legislation attacking Mormon polygamy served as a ruse for completing the absorption of the Mormon religious state into the Union.
- First, women most commonly seek monogamous marriage-even in societies that allow polygamy.
- In 1988, political power, far from being a ticket to polygamy, was jeopardized by any suggestion of infidelity.
- Institutions such as polygamy are seen by Engels as mere variants on the institution of monogamy.
- No hunter-gatherer society supports more than occasional polygamy, and the institution of marriage is virtually universal.
- Sometimes, however, polygamy could be liberating for a woman because the burden of household duties was shared.
- That left him with one explanation for the rarity of polygamy in sparrows: The senior wives do not stand for it.
- The Book of Mormon itself had condemned polygamy.
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