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UK
/bˈɪɡɐmˌɪst/
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NOUN
- someone who marries one person while already legally married to another
How To Use bigamist In A Sentence
- Covered by a trail of new names, false claims, and new marital arrangements, deserters and bigamists often lurked just beyond the reach of the law.
- In times of abundant prey, male saw-whet owls may be bigamists and even trigamists, supporting two or three mates during one breeding season.
- Apparently the first wives of bigamists did not always care to chase down their absconding husbands.
- And one of them seems to believe I'm a bigamist and has gone to the trouble to try to stir up trouble for me. THY BROTHER DEATH
- I said I didn't think he was a bigamist or did he have something to tell me? NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
- But Margaret's husband had been a bigamist: did that disqualify her great-granddaughter?
- No sooner are they wed than it's revealed she is a bigamist, thus annulling the marriage. Globe and Mail
- Yeah, there was: she said she thought her husband had another wife, that he was a bigamist. WORST FEARS REALIZED
- Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church’s law, though no wits, all gone, even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist.” Dracula
- There this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church's law, though no wits, all gone -- even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist. Dracula