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countable and uncountable, plural polygamies
The condition of having more than one spouse or marriage partner at one time. quotations examples
Miss Griffin was a model of propriety, and I am at a loss to imagine what the feelings of the virtuous woman would have been, if she had known, when she paraded us down the Hampstead Road two and two, that she was walking with a stately step at the head of Polygamy and Mahomedanism.
1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
(often, especially in common use) Synonym of polygyny (“marriage of a man to more than one wife, the practice of having several wives at the same time”) quotations examples
Because Mormon polygamy was an unusual family form in nineteenth-century America […]
1991, Kathryn M Daynes, Plural wives and the nineteenth-century Mormon marriage system, page 16
(zoology) The state or habit of having more than one sexual mate.
(botany) The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers. examples