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bigamy

[ big-uh-mee ]

noun

plural bigamies.
  1. Law. the crime of marrying while one has a spouse still living, from whom no valid divorce has been effected.
  2. 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

  1. the crime of marrying a person while one is still legally married to someone else
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ²ú¾±²µ²¹³¾´Ç³Ü²õ±ô²â, adverb
  • ˈ²ú¾±²µ²¹³¾´Ç³Ü²õ, adjective
  • ˈ²ú¾±²µ²¹³¾¾±²õ³Ù, noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bigamy1

1200–50; Middle English bigamie < Medieval Latin bigamia ( Late Latin bigam ( us ) bigamous + Latin -ia -y 3 )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bigamy1

C13: via French from Medieval Latin bigamus ; see bi- 1, -gamy
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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.

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But with no-fault divorces, a couple could split amiably, without accusing or proving anything like bigamy or fraud or abandonment.

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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.

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A man who admitted to the "cruel deception" of bigamy has been handed a suspended jail term and placed on curfew.

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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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