[
UK
/bˈɪɡæmi/
]
NOUN
- the state of having two spouses at the same time
- the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred
How To Use bigamy In A Sentence
- Sharpe on the other hand was recorded as marrying legally in November 1990 before committing her first offence of bigamy the following May.
- For the male pied flycatcher, bigamy is obviously a successful strategy, but it also requires quite complex behavioural adaptations.
- She had been sentenced at Blackpool Magistrates' Court for an offence of bigamy committed in April 2002, which she admitted.
- One thought: When you used the word trigamy, did you mean bigamy? Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
- This same decretal of Pope Gregory II., which permits bigamy in certain cases, denies conjugal rights forever to the boys and girls, whom their parents have devoted to the Church in their infancy. A Philosophical Dictionary
- He espoused them both, simultaneously, in a kind of philosophical bigamy.
- Perhaps he was leading a double life-perhaps I should warn Andrea before she found herself committing bigamy.
- She is not a woman to worry excessively about committing bigamy and now she is blithely preparing to move ahead into trigamy.
- But someone blew the whistle and Michael was arrested for bigamy and hauled before the courts.
- Well, for instance, bigamy is a federal offence, and I have little doubt that the Commonwealth could prohibit people calling themselves married.
