bigamy
having two wives or husbands
TRANSLATION
bigamy = die Bigamie --- GOOGLE INDEX bigamy: approximately 350,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
A federal judge has finalized his decision striking down part of Utah's anti-BIGAMY law.
(The Salt Lake Tribune)
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When detectives did a little probing they realized the 49-year-old had married four women in South Carolina since 1988, thus taking BIGAMY from crime to hobby.
(The Berkeley Independent)
(The Salt Lake Tribune)
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When detectives did a little probing they realized the 49-year-old had married four women in South Carolina since 1988, thus taking BIGAMY from crime to hobby.
(The Berkeley Independent)
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bigamy
noun
- marriage to two wives or two husbands at once
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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Bigamy or polygamy. Is there a difference? Yes and no.
Bigamy is the unlawful act of knowingly having two or more wives or husbands at the same time, with the second not knowing about the first. Polygamy is the practice of having multiple wives based on religious beliefs, with all wives aware of, and agreeable to, the husband having several wives. The wives of polygamists refer to each other as "sister wives".
In western countries like the UK and the US, with polygamy the more common practice is to have a legal marriage with the first wife, then the subsequent marriages are performed by an elder of a church instead of having a legal marriage ceremony as is done with the first marriages.
This is a way of avoiding prosecution, since they know the subsequent marriages are not legal, nor are they recognized in any way by the state. So only the first wife receives any benefits as the legal spouse, with the sister wives receiving none.
Bigamy is from the Old French bigamie and from the Church Latin bigamia, which derives from the Late Latin bigamus, meaning twice married (bi = double + Greek gamos = marrying). Likewise polygamy comes from poly (multiple) and gamos. A person who carries out bigamy or polygamy is called a bigamist and polygamist respectively.
(source: answers.com)
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noun
- marriage to two wives or two husbands at once
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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Bigamy or polygamy. Is there a difference? Yes and no.
Bigamy is the unlawful act of knowingly having two or more wives or husbands at the same time, with the second not knowing about the first. Polygamy is the practice of having multiple wives based on religious beliefs, with all wives aware of, and agreeable to, the husband having several wives. The wives of polygamists refer to each other as "sister wives".
In western countries like the UK and the US, with polygamy the more common practice is to have a legal marriage with the first wife, then the subsequent marriages are performed by an elder of a church instead of having a legal marriage ceremony as is done with the first marriages.
This is a way of avoiding prosecution, since they know the subsequent marriages are not legal, nor are they recognized in any way by the state. So only the first wife receives any benefits as the legal spouse, with the sister wives receiving none.
Bigamy is from the Old French bigamie and from the Church Latin bigamia, which derives from the Late Latin bigamus, meaning twice married (bi = double + Greek gamos = marrying). Likewise polygamy comes from poly (multiple) and gamos. A person who carries out bigamy or polygamy is called a bigamist and polygamist respectively.
(source: answers.com)
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Bigamy is a crime in most western countries."
