bigamy

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big·a·my | \ ˈbi-gə-mē

Definition of bigamy

law : the act of entering into a marriage with one person while still legally married to another was accused of bigamy

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He was accused of bigamy.

Recent Examples on the Web An enterprising publisher reissued an account of the 1706 bigamy trial of Robert Fielding, with prints of the interior view and a key of where famous people had sat. — Catherine Ostler, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2022 The Duchess of Kingston, once the most celebrated maid of honor to Augusta, Princess of Wales, was to stand trial for bigamy. — Catherine Ostler, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2022 And yet the bigamy trial of Elizabeth Chudleigh is what preoccupied aristocrats and politicians, along with a good portion of the British populace, at the time. — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022 Green was convicted of bigamy in 2001 and, a year later, of raping a 13-year-old girl in the 1980s. — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021 Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were the subject of poems that leaned into racist tropes and allegations of bigamy. — CBS News, 1 Nov. 2021 Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were the subject of poems that leaned into racist tropes and allegations of bigamy. — CBS News, 1 Nov. 2021 It was called the bigamy bill, and was aimed at polygamists. — Matt Didisheim, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Dec. 2021 Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were the subject of poems that leaned into racist tropes and allegations of bigamy. — CBS News, 1 Nov. 2021 See More

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