Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Second marriage; marriage after the death of the first spouse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A second
marriage (as after the death or divorce of a spouse)
Etymologies
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From Latin digamia ("twice married"), from Ancient Greek διγαμία (digamia, "bigamy"), δίγαμος (digamos), from δίς (dis, "twice") + γάμος (gamos, "marriage"). In modern terms, from di- + -gamy
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Examples
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It is rather the object than the pretext which must be taken into account, but it is clear that she is exposed to the punishment of digamy.
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In the case of trigamy and polygamy they laid down the same rule, in proportion, as in the case of digamy; namely one year for digamy
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Tertullian, for example, writing at the beginning of the third century says: "Among us the prescript is more fully and more carefully laid down, that they who are chosen into the sacerdotal order must be men of one marriage; which rule is so rigidly observed that I remember some removed from their office for digamy."
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