[Ads-l] Antedating of "Polyamorist"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Dec 25 13:24:17 UTC 2022


polyamorist (OED 1992)

1953 A. C. Ward Illustrated History of English Literature 1: 86 (Internet Archive)  If Henry VIII had not been a determined polyamorist to whom divorce or some more drastic means to annulment of marriage was a recurrent necessity.

Fred Shapiro

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