Crossword-Solution: POLYANDRY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Polyandry | n. | The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with monandry. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “POLYANDRY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Custom of a wife having several husbands | 1 answer |
| practice of having more than one husband at the same time | 1 answer |
| MARRIAGE having more than one husband at the same time | 2 answers |
| Custom of having two or more husbands at a time | 2 answers |
| MARRIAGE, type of | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
ONIMTEO
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A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with POLYANDRY (5)
Porro foedam hanc onanismi venerem ludentes uxoria mariti habent nunc omnigm suavissimam_] [Footnote 20: Polyandry,--plurality of husbands.] [Footnote 21: Infanticide has just been publicly advocated in England, in a pamphlet written by a disciple of Malthus.
Forced and long-continued toil became the rule of life, the old ties of blood relationship and kinship disappeared, and instead of the family appeared a new polygamy and polyandry, which, in some cases, almost reached promiscuity.
Jenner Weir and by others, that it is somewhat common for three starlings to frequent the same nest; but whether this is a case of polygamy or polyandry has not been ascertained.
The males of the Cyprinidae likewise seem to be in excess; but several members of this Family, viz., the carp, tench, bream and minnow, appear regularly to follow the practice, rare in the animal kingdom, of polyandry; for the female whilst spawning is always attended by two males, one on each side, and in the case of the bream by three or four males.
Women would not have been thus rendered scarce, and polyandry would not have been practised; for hardly any other cause, except the scarcity of women seems sufficient to break down the natural and widely prevalent feeling of jealousy, and the desire of each male to possess a female for himself.