Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Remarriage after the death or divorce of one's first husband or wife.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A second marriage after the death of the first husband or wife, or the custom of contracting such marriages.
  • noun In botany, a form of nuclear fusion in certain cryptogams which is subsequent to the sexual act and superposed upon it.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See bigamy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A second marriage, after the death of the first husband or wife; in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek second + wedding, marriage. From deutero- + -gamy

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Examples

  • You here see that unfortunate divine, who has so long, and it would ill become me to say, successfully fought against the deuterogamy of the age. ""

    The Vicar of Wakefield 1766

  • You here see that unfortunate Divine, who has so long, and it would ill become me to say, successfully, fought against the deuterogamy of the age. '

    The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 1752

  • You here see that unfortunate Divine, who has so long, and it would ill become me to say, successfully, fought against the deuterogamy of the age.’

    The Vicar of Wakefield 2004

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