Newman, to bring forth any evidence whatever to prove that there were more than two polygamist families in all Israel during the time of their sojourn in the wilderness.
The murder, therefore, had no reference, directly or indirectly, to marriage, while the murder which the firstpolygamist mentioned in history committed grew out of the marriage relation.
He is the first polygamist on record, the first mentioned in the first two hundred years of the history of the world.
But it has been asserted before this congregation that this first case recorded of a polygamist brought in connection with it a murder; and it has been indicated or inferred that the murder so committed was in defence of polygamy.
Surely the founder of a polygamist nation and the revealer of a polygamist law, as this gentleman claims, should have set an example, and should have had a dozen or a hundred wives.
It is probable that, when St. Paul wrote to Timothy and Titus, not a single polygamist had been converted to the Christian faith.
Roberts for Congress--a polygamist who had been threatened with excommunication for his opposition to the "political manifesto" of 1896 and who had recanted and made his peace with the hierarchy.
It required the strong persuasions of personal affection as well as the authority of Divine command to make the young women accept a polygamist in marriage.
Not a polygamist in Utah, to my knowledge, declined to take advantage of the mercy, by refusing the expressly implied pledge.
They protect the polygamist by a conspiracy of falsehood that is almost as shameful as the shame it seeks to cover; and the infection of the duplicity spreads like a plague to corrupt the whole social life of the people.
I answered that in nearly all cases within my personal knowledge, the polygamist had relinquished conjugal relations with his plural wives with the full acquiescence of them and their children.
And it is a fact that since the prompt exclusion of Roberts from the House of Representatives no known polygamisthas been elected to either House of Congress.
The wife of a new polygamist cannot claim a husband; she has no social status; she cannot, even to her parents, prove the religious sanction for her marital relations.
A Mrs. Clara Kennedy testified that she had been married to a polygamist in 1896, in Juarez, Mexico, by Apostle Brigham Young, Jr.
The poor, heart-stricken, and hitherto trusting wife immediately rose to the dignity of outraged womanhood and insulted wifehood and compelled the polygamist to choose at once between her and the concubine.
He is, as far as I can discover, the sole polygamistin the whole group of the terrestrial Carnivora, and he alone presents well-marked sexual characters.
Hyrum Smith, however, was a polygamist before his death, he having had several women sealed to him by his brother, Joseph, some of whom are now living.
The Asiatic Antilope saiga appears to be the most inordinate polygamist in the world; for Pallas (11.
As far as I can discover, he is the only polygamist amongst all the terrestrial Carnivora, and he alone presents well-marked sexual characters.
Footnote 48: A hut is usually allotted to each wife, and thus this impost falls heavily on the polygamist chief, being, in fact, a tax upon luxuries.
Mormon that you have been--polygamist that you are--you are the only one who's left to me!
Their delegate to congress, the one who has four wives in Utah, and declares he is not a polygamist in Washington, might not like me to explain what I know of his large family," chuckles the old gentleman.
The Court of Berlin in the days of the polygamist King, Frederick William II.
It soon came to be understood that no good Christian could have at one time more than one wife; and at length the polygamist was excluded from communion by a positive enactment.
Lee in regard to the practice of polygamy in Illinois is very circumstantial, and Lee was a conscientious polygamist to the day of his death.
Observe that I do not say the polygamistis necessarily an immoral man.
But the polygamist deliberately sets up and justifies and glorifies a system which is as false to physiology as it is to morals.
Or again, 'Yes, I am a polygamist all right, and my forty-seven wives are accompanying me on the voyage disguised as secretaries.
As a polygamist Moses beheld the face of God, and was filled with His glory to that degree that his face shone like that of an angel.
As a polygamist Jacob gave twelve tribes to the world instead of two, which was the number born by his first intended, his beloved Rachel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polygamist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
