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bigamy
[ big-uh-mee ]
noun
- Law. the crime of marrying while one has a spouse still living, from whom no valid divorce has been effected.
- Ecclesiastical. any violation of canon law concerning marital status that would disqualify a person from receiving holy orders or from retaining or surpassing an ecclesiastical rank.
bigamy
/ ˈ²úɪɡə³¾Éª /
noun
- the crime of marrying a person while one is still legally married to someone else
Derived Forms
- ˈ²ú¾±²µ²¹³¾´Ç³Ü²õ±ô²â, adverb
- ˈ²ú¾±²µ²¹³¾´Ç³Ü²õ, adjective
- ˈ²ú¾±²µ²¹³¾¾±²õ³Ù, noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bigamy1
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Example Sentences
Her argument was that the king - known to his subjects as "Ingonyama", meaning Lion - would be committing the offence of "bigamy" without first "converting" his civil marriage to her into a traditional Zulu marriage.
But with no-fault divorces, a couple could split amiably, without accusing or proving anything like bigamy or fraud or abandonment.
Rachel’s divorce had not been legally granted at the time of their wedding, so Rachel Robards was still married to her first husband when she married Andrew Jackson, a crime known as bigamy.
A man who admitted to the "cruel deception" of bigamy has been handed a suspended jail term and placed on curfew.
Plaintiffs said that the authors of the Mississippi Constitution in 1890 stripped voting rights for crimes they thought Black people were more likely to commit, including forgery, larceny and bigamy.
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