Crossword-Solution: POLYGYNY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Polygyny | n. | The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; marriage to several wives. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “POLYGYNY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Custom of a husband taking several wives | 1 answer |
| practice of having more than one wife at the same time | 1 answer |
| MARRIAGE having more than one wife or mate at the same time | 4 answers |
| MARRIAGE, type of | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with POLYGYNY (5)
And since this experience in its fullest sense must be carried in the case of women to the point of childbearing, it can only be reconciled with the acceptance of marriage with the child's father by legalizing polygyny, because there are more adult women in the country than men.
Now though polygyny prevails throughout the greater part of the British Empire, and is as practicable here as in India, there is a good deal to be said against it, and still more to be felt.
MONOGAMY, POLYGYNY AND POLYANDRY The number of wives permitted to a single husband or of husbands to a single wife under a marriage system, is not an ethical problem: it depends solely on the proportion of the sexes in the population.
The natural foundation of the institution of monogamy is not any inherent viciousness in polygyny or polyandry, but the hard fact that men and women are born in about equal numbers.
Would it not then be well to try unlimited polygyny; so that the remaining fifth could have as many wives apiece as they could afford? Let us see how this would work.