Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has been thrice married; especially, ono who has three wives or three husbands at the same time. Sometimes used attributively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has been married three times; also, one who has three husbands or three wives at the same time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who has three wives; someone who commits
trigamy . - noun A person who has a third marriage.
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Examples
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Hiram Maxim, accused trigamist, suspected draft dodger, and self-taught inventor from backwoods Maine, who decamped for London, where he invented the first true automatic weapon, the Maxim machine gun.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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Hiram Maxim, an accomplished cad, suspected draft dodger, and accused trigamist, presented multiple and conflicting accounts of the origins of the Maxim gun.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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A _trigamist_ is one who has been _three_ times _married_; especially one who has three wives or three husbands at the same time.
Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois Elmer W. Cavins
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In an ordinary detective tale the investigator discovers that some amiable-looking fellow who subscribes to all the charities, and is fond of animals, has murdered his grandmother, or is a trigamist.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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According to general opinion, the multiplication of marriages does not increase the number of irregularities contracted; so the bigamist and trigamist equally incur only one irregularity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Hippolytus (ix. 12) that by the beginning of the 3d century the rule of monogamy for the clergy was well established, since he complains that in the days of Callistus ` digamist and trigamist bishops, and priests and deacons, began to be admitted into the clergy. '
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You don't look like you had an aunt that was a trigamist, 'says he.
Flower of the Dusk Myrtle Reed 1892
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Magdalene with the will, and the family Bible and their marriage certificate, and tell her she is a trigamist, and they will make trouble for her if she don't do right by 'em, Magdalene sobs out, 'Oh, Heaven, I am lost!' and falls in a dead faint from which she don't come out for six weeks.
Flower of the Dusk Myrtle Reed 1892
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An egomaniacal trigamist, cad and draft dodger, he gave the world the first truly automatic weapon.
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Hiram Maxim, the sadist and possible trigamist, Chivers says, who developed one of the first viable automatic weapons.
AK-47 Assault Rifle Inspires Flags, Vodka, Armies of Child Soldiers: Books - Bloomberg 2010
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