Definition of Bigamies

1. Noun. (plural of bigamy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bigamies

1. bigamy [n] - See also: bigamy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bigamies

big toe
big toes
big top
big tree
big up
big upped
big ups
big wheel
big wheels
big whoop
big wig
big wigs
big wow
biga
bigae
bigamies (current term)
bigaminate
bigamist
bigamists
bigamous
bigamously
bigamy
bigarade
bigarades
bigaroon
bigaroons
bigarreau
bigarreaus
bigcreekite

Literary usage of Bigamies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In the opinion, however, of those who divide interpretative bigamies into ex dejecta sacramenti and ex delicio bigamies, it is necessary, in the case where ..."

2. Human physiology the basis of sanitary and social science by Thomas Low Nichols (1872)
"The Pall Mall Gazette says of the frequent and seldom prosecuted, and lightly punished bigamies of the poor:—"A labouring man must have a housekeeper and a ..."

3. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"And he was empowered to pardon all irregularities run into by them, and all the bigamies of ecclesiastical persons; they first relinquishing their wives: ..."

4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"This is a peculiar privilege of the clergy, that sentence of death can never be passed upon them for any number of manslaughters, bigamies, simple larcenies ..."

5. A History of Our Own Times by Justin McCarthy (1886)
"Miss Braddon dealt in what we may call simple, straightforward murders and bigamies, and such like material; Mr. Wilkie Collins made his crimes always of an ..."

6. A History of Our Own Times by Justin McCarthy (1884)
"Miss Braddon dealt in what we may call simple, straightforward murders and bigamies, and such like material; Mr. Wilkie Collins made his crimes always of an ..."

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