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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

A man who admitted to the "cruel deception" of bigamy has been handed a suspended jail term and placed on curfew.

From BBC Nov. 29, 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

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

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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