It will be observed that the actual polygamous status, or living with two or more women as wives, known in Utah as a criminal offense termed "unlawful cohabitation," is not referred to in the proviso of the Enabling Act.
The chief purpose of this pamphlet was evidently to prove that Mormonism was an oath-bound secret organization, "for the encouragement and protection of polygamous living.
It is quite evident that the church monarchy is endeavoring to re-establish the rule of a polygamous class over the mass of the Mormon people.
Whether the Constitution builders will content themselves with prohibiting polygamous marriages, or will go further and prescribe the polygamous association also will be developed in time.
Polygamous or plural marriages are to be forever prohibited.
No inhabitant of this state shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship; but polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited.
The demand was only: "provided polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited.
Shall polygamous converts be received into the Christian Church?
With polygamous plants, the distribution of the sexes differs in the individuals of the same species.
Montagu and Selby speak of the Black Grouse as polygamous and of the Red Grouse as monogamous.
Cynocephalus, difference of the young from the adult; male, recognition of women by; polygamous habits of species of.
Boar, wild, polygamous in India; use of the tusks by the; fighting of.
In several groups I have not been able to discover whether the species are polygamous or monogamous.
Ducks, wild, becoming polygamous under partial domestication; dogs and cats recognised by.
Gill remarks that it is with the polygamous seals, the males of which are well known to fight savagely together, that the sexes differ much in size; the monogamous species differing but little.
Savage and Wyman on the polygamoushabits of the gorilla.
Solomon, according to polygamous principles, with his thousand women, should have enjoyed a most felicitous condition.
In this, as in all forms of polygamous marriages, love is made synonymous with sexuality, and its purely spiritual element is lost.
In no country where the polygamous system prevails do we find a code of political and social ethics which recognizes the rights and claims of the individual.
Then came family dissensions such as usually vex thepolygamous courts of the East.
But Urraca was tenacious of her right as proprietary queen and had not learnt chastity in the polygamoushousehold of her father.
In his sermon on celestial marriage he claims that Moses was a polygamist, and he declares that the leprosy that was sent upon Miriam was for her interference with the polygamous marriage of Moses.
It is a fact that in polygamouscountries one sex or the other has preponderance in numbers.
Why he first assumed the prevalence of polygamy among the Jews in the wilderness, and then said the law was made for polygamous families as well as for monogamous.
The children of polygamous marriages must defend polygamy to defend their own legitimacy.
The Mormons went to Mexico; there they are to-day in many a rich community, as freely polygamous as in the most wide-flung hour of Brigham Young.
Diaz welcomed the Mormons; they might be aspolygamous as they pleased.
In the end Utah was made a State; the Mormons breathed the freer as ones who had escaped that Edmunds statute which was like a sword of Damocles above their polygamous heads.
A man may be polygamous in one village, and be one of a polyandrous lot of men a few miles off.
He was surrounded by women constantly, as the Scriptures attest, and those women were His polygamous wives.
We give the remarks recently made in defence of polygamy by Bishop Lunt of the Mormon Church, to a reporter of The San Francisco Chronicle: God revealed to Joseph Smith the polygamous system.
In wealthy Gentile communities the concubine system largely takes the place of the polygamous system.
The polygamous system is the only natural one, and the time rapidly approaches when it will be the most conspicuous and beneficent of American institutions.
But I saw, too, that his polygamous jealousy served as a means to the end of advance in progress.
The polygamous jealous father never enters into friendly union with the other males.
I am willing to accept the authority of the polygamous patriarch--within limits.
The important thing to note is that in each group there would be only one adult polygamous male, with many women of different ages and young children.
In favour of the Celtic is the polygamous framework; while on the other hand, it is difficult to guess how the story could have got from the Highlands to Germany.
I have modified the end, which has a polygamous complexion.
A long acquaintance with savage races has led me to the conclusion that man is naturally a polygamous animal.
Your mother, from her unrivalled knowledge of heathen races, has told you that man is naturally a polygamous animal.
He is by nature one of the most polygamous of male animals.
In polygamous countries each man obtains as many wives as he can purchase and support.
The recent polygamous teachings of the prophet were a matter to mention with lowered voice.
Her enthusiasm leaped to David and he forgot the Mexican boundaries and the polygamous Mormons, and felt like a discoverer on the prow of a ship whose keel cuts unknown seas.
Most of them feed more or less upon fruits and bright-coloured food-stuffs, and they are probably every one of them polygamous in their habits.
It is a polygamous bird, and it differs most conspicuously in plumage from its consort, the grey-hen, as may be seen from the very names by which they are each familiarly known.
Utah will be admitted as a polygamous State, the other Territories we have peacefully subjugated will be admitted also, and then we will hold the balance of power and will dictate to the country.
It has known itself to be a transgressor, and every polygamous marriage has been deliberately contracted with this knowledge.
A daughter of Brigham Young professed on the witness-stand recently not to know that her sister was married, although her sister had had a child by her polygamous husband, and she had been in and out of the house frequently.
At that meeting one woman seventy years of age said: "I thank God that I am a polygamous wife;" and she said she had a "feeling of great pity for those who did not enjoy this good blessing.
But the fact should not be overlooked that the doctrine or belief of the church that polygamous marriages are rightful and supported by divine revelation remains unchanged.
Here the natives are rich, industrial, commercial, and polygamous to the full extent of their available capital.
It is a method of tracing genealogy, more convenient in polygamous societies and more natural in primitive times when the close connection of mother and child during the early days of infancy emphasises the relation.
We must then imagine our more or less human ancestor, roaming the forest in search of daily food, as a solitary polygamous male, with wife or wives and female children; the unsocial head of a solitary isolated group.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polygamous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
