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bigamy

[big-uh-mee] / ˈbɪg ə mi /
NOUN
polygamy
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But with no-fault divorces, a couple could split amiably, without accusing or proving anything like bigamy or fraud or abandonment.

From Los Angeles Times May 24, 2024

In 2021, Lai Xiaomin, the former chairman of Huarong - one of China's biggest state-controlled asset management companies - was executed after being found guilty of corruption and bigamy.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2023

Circuit Court of Appeals panel ordered the Mississippi secretary of state to stop enforcing a provision in the state constitution that disenfranchises people convicted of specific crimes, including murder, forgery and bigamy.

From Seattle Times Aug. 4, 2023

Eight crimes listed in the 1890 version of the provision - bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement and bigamy - remain as disqualifying offenses today.

From Reuters Jun. 30, 2023

Rachel’s divorce had not been legally granted at the time of their wedding, so Rachel Robards was still married to her first husband when she married Andrew Jackson, a crime known as bigamy.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

I asked him—a Scotch marriage, or some of those crooked wed-locks on which they found bigamies and illegitimacies.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan




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