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/bˈɪɡɐmˌɪst/
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NOUN
- someone who marries one person while already legally married to another
How To Use bigamist In A Sentence
- 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
- I am branded as a bigamist, 'she added bitterly;' do you fancy I wish to add the title murderess to my name? ' A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg
- Populated by a cast of country drunkards, bigamists, abused women, children and the inevitable dog, these are homespun morality tales.
- He thought it was a grand joke to pretend he believed Patrick was a bigamist. THY BROTHER DEATH
- For many years male bitterns have been considered at times bigamists.
- Even the Marquis himself does not know whether his son was legitimate or not; or whether his wife is a bigamist.
- He described in glowing terms the blackguardism of the would-be bigamist, sitting there in smug complacency by the side of his already one too many wife. My beloved South,
- Some women, hearing nothing for years, assumed that they were widows and married again, only for their soldier husbands to return from the wars, rendering them unwitting bigamists.
- By strict adherence to this schedule, he has been a successful, if tired, bigamist for three years.
- 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.