Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Involving bigamy.
- adjective Guilty of bigamy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to bigamy; guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy: as, a bigamous marriage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a marriage involving
bigamy - adjective of a spouse
guilty of bigamy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first
Etymologies
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Examples
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'Hadn't you best leave well alone?' said I; 'for I declare till this moment I hadn't dreamed that another such woman as yourself existed in the world, and it gives me a kind of bigamous feeling which I can't say I find altogether unpleasant.'
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Agent reports flooded into bureau offices complaining that the freed men and women persisted in “the disgusting practice of living together as man and wife without proper marriage,” “living together and calling themselves man and wife as long as it conveniently suits them,” and maintaining bigamous or adulterous relationships.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Rachel Jackson's divorce from her first husband was, unknown to her, not yet final when she married Jackson, making the marriage technically bigamous.
Gingrich and the History of Negative Campaigns John Steele Gordon 2012
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Fred Jackson is a known con artist, fraudster and bigamous.
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However, the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS), where all marriages are registered nationally, removes these bigamous or polygamous marriages from its files, on the assumption that administrative errors have occurred.
Netherlands recognizes polygamous marriages of Muslims. Sort of. 2008
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Registrars in the major cities, in particular, record dozens of bigamous or polygamous marriages per year.
Netherlands recognizes polygamous marriages of Muslims. Sort of. 2008
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"And thus the bigamous marriage was proclaimed, on 27 November 1879," writes Simon Loftus in his book "Puligny-Montrachet."
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What if Josef and this woman were husband and wife, the marriage to Dagmar bigamous?
Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010
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And, until you dissolve your present marriage or civil union, it would be bigamous for you to try to marry or register with someone else - and thus you could be prevented from legally re-partnering with a new beloved.
Jenny Block: Why Won't Texas Grant a Divorce to a Same-Sex Couple? 2010
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And, until you dissolve your present marriage or civil union, it would be bigamous for you to try to marry or register with someone else - and thus you could be prevented from legally re-partnering with a new beloved.
Jenny Block: Why Won't Texas Grant a Divorce to a Same-Sex Couple? 2010
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