Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Triple marriage; the state of one who has been thrice married; especially, the state or offense of having three wives or husbands at the same time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of having three (legal or illegal)
spouses simultaneously. - noun ecclesiastical A third marriage.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One thought: When you used the word trigamy, did you mean bigamy?
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Basil calls trigamy, polygamy, and quoting Gregory of Nazianzus (Orat. 31) as calling a third marriage paranomia.
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Maxim weathered court cases that accused him of misdeeds ranging from patent infringement to trigamy.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
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So bigamy, trigamy, and quadrigamy are now legal in Britain.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Because he wants to get his picture, as the peer convicted of trigamy, on the back page of the '_Daily Mail_,' with the fourth wife inset.
If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson Barry Pain 1896
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There is no law as to trigamy: a third marriage is not contracted by law.
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Maran confirms this opinion by the comparison of the imposition on polygamy of the same number of years of penance as are assigned to trigamy in Canon iv.
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In cases of trigamy we have accepted a seclusion of five years, not by the canons, but following the precept of our predecessors.
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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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