serial polygamy
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The practice of marrying and divorcing a succession of individual spouses.
Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: serial monogamy"
- ""In America, you have so much divorce—perhaps because adultery was once a capital crime. You've ended up with serial polygamy.""
- "More recently, men like Donald Trump and Ronald Perelman have adopted a new form of marriage, serial polygamy—many wives, one at a time—which is possibly the worst system of all."
- "Marriage can be a form of temporary concubinage, lightly initiated, easily ended. Instead of lifelong union, it is, for many newly-weds, an introduction to serial polygamy."
- "[T]he widespread acceptance and frequency of divorce means that the bond of marriage is permanent only as long as you want it to be. Thus, state-sanctioned and socially accepted serial polygamy is now the order of the day."
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
serial polygamist
Frequently Paired Words
serial polygamist
polygamy