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Etymology
Origin of bigamous
1860–65; < Late Latin bigamus, equivalent to bi- bi- 1 + Greek -gamos -gamous
Example Sentences
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If so, her marriage to John is bigamous, and his candidacy is almost sure to fail.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2023
His son Daniel - born months before his father's death in 1991 - was barred from becoming the 4th Baron Moynihan after it was ruled the so-called Playboy Peer's fifth and final marriage was bigamous.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2016
In fact, his parents’ marriage was a bigamous one, as Fairbanks’s father had not been divorced from his first wife.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 2, 2015
Thrusting the lurid details of Philpott's crime and his bigamous lifestyle into a serious debate was a tasteless move, according to opposition lawmakers and some groups campaigning against poverty.
From Reuters ● Apr. 4, 2013
English mothers who would have welcomed him as a son-in-law were led to believe that the divorce was only a blind, and that the prince's marriage would be actually, if not legally, a bigamous union.
From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by Paston, George
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