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n. - A man with two or more wives.

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  • Every adult African male was required to pay a labour tax of two pounds, with another two pounds for the second and each additional wife of a polygynist.
  • Even without that, I don't know that the poly community -- or even the religious polygynist communities -- have got a handle on the issues that are the core of marriage...
  • Rambam excluded the levirate wife from the condition to prohibit the husband from taking another wife because he considered the precept of yibbum as taking precedence, both...
  • It doesn’t change the underlying problem, and it’s likely to leave many of the women worse off — instead of the women being in a recognized relationship with rights to support,...
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