BIGAMY


Meaning of BIGAMY in English

noun

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Andrew Jackson, the first president from the western frontier, was unjustly accused of bigamy and derided as an unschooled ignoramus.

For the male pied flycatcher, bigamy is obviously a successful strategy, but it also requires quite complex behavioural adaptations.

Green, who has five wives and 30 children, had been charged with four counts of bigamy .

He espoused them both, simultaneously, in a kind of philosophical bigamy .

One of these, Tolson, was a case on bigamy .

Perhaps he was leading a double life-perhaps I should warn Andrea before she found herself committing bigamy .

The male has fulfilled his ambition of bigamy at the expense of a female.

Various new definitions of bigamy have been suggested, including cohabitation for more than six months and a partnership that produces children.

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