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what are poligimist? And mormom?
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Monogamy is when two people are married to each other. Any more people involved in the marriage would be a polygamy, like having many wives and many husbands at one time, or a plural marriage. Polygyny is when one man has more than one wife and polyandry is when one woman has more than one husband. In Mormonism, it's polygyny that they practice, usually, but sometimes they do practice polyandry as well.
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From there: The term polygamy (many marriages in late Greek) is used in related ways in social anthropology, sociobiology, and sociology. Polygamy can be defined as any "form of marriage in which a person [has] more than one spouse."
So a polygamist has more than one spouse.
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From there: Mormon is also a term used to describe people who are adherents, practitioners, followers or constituents of Mormonism. Mormons are a subcategory of Latter Day Saints; the term is most commonly used to refer to members of the Utah-based The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which is sometimes colloquially called the Mormon Church. On occasion the term is used more broadly to describe any individual or group that claims belief in the Book of Mormon, including other Latter Day Saint groups.
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