polygamy vs polygyny
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noun
- the condition or practice of having more than one spouse at a time
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There is already a great deal of precedent since polygamy has been widely practiced throughout history.
The debut in spring 2006 of HBO's television series, Big Love, which featured a fictional and in some ways likeable polygamous family in Utah, propelled polygamy to the front pages of American newspapers and put the idea of legalized polygamy "in play" in some surprising quarters.
Debut novelists will make up nearly half of the Orange prize for fiction longlist, which this year tackles strikingly difficult subjects: incest, sadistic cruelty, polygamy, child bereavement, hermaphroditism and mental illness.
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noun
- polygamy in which a man has more than one wife at a time
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However, the degree of dimorphism in some clades of mammals, including perissodactyls, does not correlate with the degree of polygyny.
Polygyny is legal, and couples have the option of choosing between monogamy and polygyny when they enter into a civil marriage (although this is not necessarily binding).
Satlow then discusses levirate marriage, polygyny and concubinage.
