trigamy
Americannoun
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the state of having three wives or three husbands at one time.
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the state of having been lawfully married to three wives or three husbands at different times.
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Etymology
Origin of trigamy
1605–15; < Late Latin trigamia < Greek trigamía, equivalent to trígam ( os ) thrice-married + -ia -y 3. See tri-, -gamy
Example Sentences
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This curious person, whose good works have already led him to commit trigamy, engages a band of actors to enter a dismal lodging house and play roles necessary to the happiness of the various inmates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such classifications are puerile and fanciful," said Miss Gale; "but, for that very reason, they don't infect animals with trigamy.
From A Woman-Hater by Reade, Charles
A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose
Because he wants to get his picture, as the peer convicted of trigamy, on the back page of the ‘Daily Mail,’ with the fourth wife inset.
From If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson by Pain, Barry
No lady is going to be poisoned; there is no mysterious murder; neither bigamy, trigamy, nor quadrigamy; in fact, not a single gamy in the book, though once bordering upon that happy state.
From A Fluttered Dovecote by Fenn, George Manville
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