bigamy

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It is ironic that Karunanidhi, a person who practices bigamy which is illegal in India and is commenting on Rama who is considered a Maryaada Purushottama and a practitioner of Eka Patni Vrata (Single Wife for Life).

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

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  • Hard evidence or soft clues I've got a hack saw blade, some signals from Koko (who's never wrong), and enough two-and-two to put together and make a case of sabotage, bigamy, arson, murder, and several counts of attempted murder. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_16_The_Cat_Who_Came_To_Breakfast
  • A Logan woman has been charged with bigamy, after police found she had married five times, but only once was divorced. —  2News Local News
  • It is ironic that Karunanidhi, a person who practices bigamy which is illegal in India and is commenting on Rama who is considered a Maryaada Purushottama and a practitioner of Eka Patni Vrata (Single Wife for Life). —  Blogger News Network
  • The public relations strategy was to portray the adults as the "real" victims; to deflect attention from the rape, bigamy, and abuse by loudly demanding vindication of the adults 'alleged rights to religious liberty (rights that were no license to break the law); and to flood the media with images of defenseless FLDS women in pastel dresses pining for their beloved children. —  FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles
  • But you all seem to forget one small point--bigamy is not permitted even to millionaires BARONESS Ah, not boz at vonce, but VERA And do you think I would take another woman's leavings? —  The Melting-Pot
 

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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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/ˈbɪgəmi/
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