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Definition of Bigamists
1. bigamist [n] - See also: bigamist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bigamists
Literary usage of Bigamists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage: Being a Complete Exposé of by Ann Eliza Young (1875)
"Polygamists Legislating for bigamists. — Mother and Daughter fighting for the
same Man ! — It is Wicked to Live with an Old Wife. ..."
2. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage: Being a Complete Exposé of by Ann Eliza Young (1875)
"—The " US" Government Conniving at Mormon Iniquities. — Beastly Conduct of Delegate
George Q. Cannon. — Polygamists Legislating for bigamists. ..."
3. 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)
"Bishops can dispense with all similar bigamists as above defined after they have
left their putative wives, done penance, ana led edifying lives, ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"That statute has for its object the case of bigamists in the proper sense ...
This denial of the benefit of clergy to bigamists was in consequence of some ..."
5. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1814)
"However, the exclusion of bigamists from the benefit of clergy was not entirely
accomplished till the council of Lyons ended the doubts which before ..."
6. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Thomas Day (1812)
"This denial of the benefit of clergy to bigamists was in consequence of some
ancient papal constitutions and canons of councils against admitting bigamists ..."
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