All 5 Uses

polygamy
in
Educated, by Tara Westover
(Edited)

"Many women struggle with their faith after they learn about polygamy," he said.
p. 244.8 *

polygamy = the practice of a husband having more than one wife at the same time
The church had ended the temporal practice of polygamy in 1890, but it had never recanted the doctrine.
p. 245.1

polygamy = a husband having more than one wife at the same time
As a child I'd been taught—by my father but also in Sunday school—that in the fullness of time God would restore polygamy, and in the afterlife, I would be a plural wife.
p. 245.2

polygamy = the practice of a husband having more than one wife at the same time
Then he gave up and mumbled the words I was supposed to say, that he didn't understand fully, but that he knew polygamy was a principle from God.
p. 246.6
I examined polygamy, not as a doctrine but as a social policy.
p. 280.6

Definitions:

(1) (polygamy)
the practice of being married to more than one person at the same time
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)