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bigamy

[big-uh-mee] / ˈbɪg ə mi /
NOUN
polygamy
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The state bigamy law won’t necessarily bar West Hollywood from registering relationships inside its two-mile-square borders.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

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

Reshma, who uses only one name, also wants the Delhi High Court to order the government to frame laws to regulate the "regressive practice" of bigamy or polygamy.

From BBC • May 9, 2022

What’s more, bigamy could now be added to Mark Antony’s many shortcomings.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby




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