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Definition of Polygamists
1. polygamist [n] - See also: polygamist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polygamists
Literary usage of Polygamists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by United States Congress, Marion Mills Miller, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"... the concubines to be competent witnesses; authorized the use of United States
troops to enforce the act; excluded alien polygamists from citizenship, ..."
2. The Women of Mormonism; Or, The Story of Polygamy as Told by the Victims by Jennie Anderson Froiseth (1882)
"polygamists Holding the Offices.—Spiritual Exaltation.-—Mormon Jurors.—Congress
Guilty.—Evil Results of Polygamy.—Laws Suggested. ..."
3. Encyclopedic Dictionary of American Reference by John Franklin Jameson, James William Buel (1901)
"In 1882 the Edmunds Act disfranchised polygamists. Morocco. A treaty of peace
and friendship was concluded between the United States and Morocco in 1787 for ..."
4. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage by Ann Eliza Young, John Bartholomew Gough, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1876)
"polygamists Legislating for Bigamists. — Mother and Daughter fighting for the
same Man ! — It is Wicked to Live with an Old Wife. ..."
5. Wife No. 19: Or The Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Exposé of by Ann Eliza Young (1875)
"polygamists Legislating for Bigamists. — Mother and Daughter fighting for the
same Man ! — It is Wicked to Live with an Old Wile. ..."
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