Bigam

Quick meaning: Bigam is a noun meaning (rare, archaic) A bigamist, or one who has married a widow.

Meaning

(rare, archaic) A bigamist, or one who has married a widow.

Example Sentences

The Asiatic queens, sultanas, and bigams, scarcely ever appear in public. They abide in the Haram, in the greatest luxury and spelendour.

On the death of Alexander, her husband, Hermione, a chatelaine, discovers that he was a bigam on the one hand, and a swindler on the other.

If he were irreguler, suspende, excommunycate, bygame, illegittime, or concubinarie open and knowen, & by the consequens suspende at the tyme & houre that he receyved the dygnyte, the cure, or prelacyon he synneth mortally and is contynually in deedly synne.

"Some parts of the scripture teach us positive ordinances of Christ, as are the sacraments; and some parts thereof teach us ordinances of some apostle, as the law of bigamy, or St. Paul 's ordaining, that a bigam should not be a deacon or priest, and that a woman vowe not chastity before the sixtieth year of her age."

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gamer, termagant, gammon, badgeman, bugger, biggy.

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