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Definition of Bigamies
1. bigamy [n] - See also: bigamy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bigamies
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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