bigamy

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  1. noun The criminal offense of marrying one person while still legally married to another.

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  • His Duchess was in the following year tried before the House of Lords for bigamy, found guilty, but, pleading benefit of peerage, was discharged. —  Lady Mary Wortley Montague
  • That was a direct incentive to bigamy, although in what respect I never learned. —  The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins
  • Five monogamous marriages, except I could make that four plus another bigamy, and Mary Ann wouldn't mind, and Terry, Terry, you could have said something noble! —  The Legacy of Heorot
  • Apart from committing bigamy, he is supposed to have seduced some eighty women during the course of his travels. —  The Murder Room
  • The latest news today: because of "Dr. Phil," a man suspected of bigamy has been arrested. —  CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2005
 

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  1. Middle English bigamie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin bigamia, from Late Latin bigamus, twice married : Latin bi-, two; see bi-1 + Greek gamos, marriage; see -gamous.

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  1. from Middle English bigamie, from Old French bigamie, from Middle Latin bigamia, bigamy, from Late Latin bigamus, twice married, a bigamist (equivalent to Greek δίγαμος, from διγαμία bigamy), from Latin bi- (= Greek δι-), twice, + γάμος, marriage.
 

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