Recent Examples on the WebBateman and his followers believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven.—CBS News, 20 Mar. 2024 Hulu 38 of 80 Big Love, Season 3 As with any of the five seasons of HBO's polygamy drama, so much happens in season 3.—Ew Staff, EW.com, 8 Jan. 2024 As early as the 1850s, people worried that the city had a reputation because of the presence of settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, who believed in polygamy.—Dana Jacobson, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2024 Alma founded his own Mormon colony in Mexico that encouraged polygamy.—Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024 Mykelti and Ysabel weren't the only children who have had second thoughts about polygamy.—Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 15 Jan. 2024 So eternal polygamy, which the faith has not deep-sixed, will, according to church doctrine, stand firm in the celestial realm.—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023 Why bring this up now, more than a century after the church did away with polygamy, not only ending it but also booting out any members who practiced it?—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023 In the early 2000s, Latter-day Saints were learning via social media about controversial elements of their faith’s past — including details about polygamy provided by the scholars, like Quinn, who were reproved by the church.—Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Late Latin polygamia "frequent marriage," borrowed from Greek polygamía, from polýgamos "married several times, polygamous" + -ia-y entry 2
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