Bigamy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BIGAMY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the crime of being married to two people at once
• the offence of marrying someone while already married to another person.
• crime of marrying a person while still legally married to someone else
• The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another.
• having two spouses at the same time
• the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred

Words related to BIGAMY

bigamies13 bigamist13 bigamists14 bigamous13 bigamously18

How to use BIGAMY in a sentence

• Our Havre marriage would have been bigamy on my part, a delusion on yours.
• And was he to be robbed of this incomparable woman by ridiculous proceedings connected with a charge of bigamy? He knew that bigamy meant prison, in England.
• Then the mayor gave Caldigate to understand that he must hold himself as committed to stand his trial for bigamy at the next Assizes for the County.
• Aunt Polly thought that the county would be shocked if a man charged with bigamy was allowed to be present at the marriage.
• He fancied that everybody looked at him, and probably there were some present who knew that he was about to stand his trial for bigamy.
• If he had committed bigamy, it was, no doubt, for the public welfare that such a crime should be exposed and punished.
• Caldigate, who, as our readers will remember, was convicted of bigamy.
• It is no more innate or instinctive than the sentiment of modesty, the regard for chastity, or the disapproval of bigamy.
• If we had married, I suppose I would be guilty of bigamy.
• I believe that the average woman would turn away from bigamy with a deeper shudder than from any other stain of conjugal infidelity.
• But as to the feelings of the family, I tell you flatly that I dont care if the whole crew were brought to the Old Bailey to-morrow and convicted of bigamy.
• The celebrated public trial of the Duchess of Kingston for bigamy took place in Westminster Hall, April, 1776.
• She was his wife, and he must not be permitted to commit bigamy.
• She had given him his choice of going away with her at once or of being prosecuted for bigamy.
• Ordinarily, whether the case be one of bigamy or of some other crime, the commissary shall proceed as stated in the two preceding clauses.
• When any arrest must be made according to these instructions, it must, for any case of bigamy, be made according to clause fifteen.
• The fact that bigamy has been made dependent upon an impossible condition is clear proof of its absolute prohibition.
• But did not Luther sanction the bigamy of Philip of Hesse? So he did.
• Austin tried and did get the promise of silence this afternoon about the Brooklyn service, to prevent a charge of bigamy against your brother.
• James Smith stole away from Darrock Hall in the night under fear of being indicted for bigamy.
• A nice job I had, William, as you may suppose, when she knew about the bigamy business.
• Dom Corria has other fish to fry than to dream of committing bigamy.
• The moral of it all being, I suppose, that if you are wedded to an ideal you should beware of taking to yourself a mortal wife, for that means bigamy.
• The bigamy of his father did not apparently affect him.
• Tubbs would commit bigamy, if necessary, for her sake.
• Now, returning to the year of the Statute of Westminster, we found, in 1275, also the Statute of Bigamy, aimed against priests with more than one wife.
• There has never yet a case occurred where a slave has been tried for bigamy.
• A person having a lawful husband or wife living, and marrying another person, is guilty of bigamy.

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