| 词汇 | polygamous |
| 释义 | polygamous adjective uk /pəˈlɪɡ.ə.məs/ us /pəˈlɪɡ.ə.məs/ married to more than one person at the same time, or relating to this practice: 一夫多妻的/一妻多夫的;多配偶的 We grew up in a very large family because my father was polygamous. 我们在一个非常大的家庭中长大，因为我父亲有好几个妻子。 a polygamous society一个多配偶制社会 See polygamy She ran away from a polygamous marriage to her uncle. It was the norm in a large polygamous family for children to live with their mothers. Although a majority of 19th-century Mormons were not polygamous, most of their leaders were. Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships adulteress affinal as husband and wifeidiom be an itemidiom be shacked upidiom have an affair have something going with someoneidiom hear wedding bellsidiom hitched honest matrimonially matrimony monogamist monogamous ménage à trois shack shack up situationship something together Examples of polygamouspolygamous Formally, the cause of divorce appeared to be the internal competition within the polygamous royal household over the favours of the sultan. Most of the families that reported more than ten members were polygamous households. In the nineteenth century economic changes led to rapid population growth and to the appearance of polygamous big men. Sterility and sub-fertility in polygamous marriages may not have resulted only from husbands suffering from venereal disease infecting a succession of new wives. At the time the ie emerged, marriage was polygamous, consisting of both wives and concubines. The increase in chobeliso was accompanied by a decline in polygamous marriages. Further, they seem oblivious to the fact that many traditionally polygamous cultures and moral traditions have adopted monogamy. A minor modification has been to introduce some subtypes to record polygamous relationships. The majority of indigenes are polygamous. I should therefore like to state clearly that there is nothing in this proposal favouring family reunification for polygamous marriages. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Separate records are not kept for wives by polygamous marriage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So again, in a sense, one is accepting the idea of a polygamous marriage until the matter is declared void. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been no widespread cry against a flood of 25 polygamous wives every year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The number of polygamous wives coming here is, in fact, very small. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This clause seeks to prevent the entry of more than one wife of a polygamous marriage in such circumstances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of polygamous These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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