bigamy
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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
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
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing bigamy
It Takes Two: Bi
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: bi-
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