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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

The voting ban affects Mississippi residents convicted of specific felonies, including murder, forgery and bigamy.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 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

Mississippi strips voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including forgery, arson and bigamy.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

Supporters of Adams said that Rachel Jackson was guilty of adultery and 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 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu




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