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Definition of Polyandry
1. Noun. Having more than one husband at a time.
Definition of Polyandry
1. n. The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with monandry.
Definition of Polyandry
1. Noun. The having of a plurality of husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a woman to more than one man, or the practice of having several husbands, at the same time. ¹
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Definition of Polyandry
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Literary usage of Polyandry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Primitive Family in Its Origin and Development by Carl Nicolai Starcke (1889)
"McLennan believes that nothing has had so much influence on the development of
the family as polyandry, which he holds to have been the first stage of ..."
2. An Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy by Herbert Spencer, Frederick Howard Collins (1889)
"polyandry. 297. Promiscuity may be called indefinite polyandry joined with indefinite
... From promiscuity we pass to that form of polyandry in which the ..."
3. The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family by Charles Jean Marie Letourneau (1895)
"polyandry in Ancient Arabia.—Its causes—Infanticide in Arabia—The legend of Cai's,
the infanticide—Evolution of polyandry in Arabia—Mot a marriage—Ba'al ..."
4. Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological by William Isaac Thomas (1909)
"The Todas have a completely organised and definite system of polyandry. When a
woman marries a man, it is understood that she becomes the wife of his ..."
5. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1906)
"(Where the common wives are not akin, the marriage is usually referred to as a
polygynous type of polyandry.) Group-marriage is, as a rule, combined with ..."
6. The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the by Andrew Wilson (1875)
"I HAVE referred more than once in these articles to the polyandry of the people
among whom I sojourned; and though this delicate subject has been alluded to ..."
7. Introduction to the Study of Sociology by Edward Cary Hayes (1915)
"polyandry is that type of domestic organization in which a little group of men,
... Westermark and Howard state that polyandry is usually connected with an ..."
8. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"The tendency to vary from monogamy in the opposite directions of polygamy and
polyandry will therefore correspond approximately with the degree in which the ..."
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