Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has committed bigamy, or had two or more wives or husbands at once.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is guilty of bigamy.
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- noun one who practices
bigamy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who marries one person while already legally married to another
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Examples
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"I'd heard the word 'bigamist', but it was a total shock to learn my father was one and what that meant for me and my sister Ashley," said Alexander.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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But incidentally parallel with this most delightful fact runs the observation that the house of the bigamist is a house divided against itself and the fruitful source of much mischief and the effectual disruption of all true discipline.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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The reasons are coming fast and furious: It's serialized, it's too out-of-the-box, there was too much competition on against it, it's too Dallas, it's not Dallas enough, nobody even remembers Dallas... but they are overlooking the simplest explanation of them all -- nobody wanted to watch a show where the bigamist was the hero.
Seriocity Kay 2010
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U.S. Video: Facebook 'bigamist': First wife has 'problems'
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His father was a bigamist, already married when he “married” Stanley Ann Dunham.
Matthew Yglesias » Scott Brown Questions Barack Obama’s Parentage 2010
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New Jersey cops have arrested an alleged serial bigamist and con man who is believed to have married at least 12 women, cheating many out of their life savings, reported The
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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The still-continuing postmortems suggest the series failed because, in the current economic climate, no one wants to watch the exploits of a con man who is also a bigamist.
Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV Jonathan Bernstein 2010
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Today we'll meet an alleged serial bigamist and conman who is believed to have married at least 12 women, cheating many out of their life savings.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Mary married her man and he turned out to be a pedophile and a bigamist and a fraudster -- a textbook psychopath.
Five Reasons To Be Concerned Your Husband Is A Psychopath 2011
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[Presumably he's not a bigamist] on May 5, 2010 at 5: 14 pm Ranter
Boy George Is Sailing Close To The Wind….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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