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Example sentences for: polygamy

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Utah was not allowed to enter the Union until long after it had achieved the minimum requirements for statehood (1896) because Americans at the time abhorred the Mormon practice of polygamy (called plural marriage in Latter-day English).
A writer visits rural Utah communities where polygamy has long been officially outlawed but is quietly tolerated.
This is basically a covert, and mild, form of polygamy: High-status males get to monopolize more than one fertile woman.
John Stuart Mill, a great advocate of liberty, sided with the critics of polygamy.
In this sense, monogamy meshes better than polygamy with the egalitarian values of a democracy.