Definitions for bigamous

bigamous big·a·mous

Spelling: [big-uh-muh s]
IPA: /ˈbɪg ə məs/

Bigamous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 268 anagrams from letters in bigamous (abgimosu).

Definitions for bigamous

adjective

  1. having two wives or husbands at the same time; guilty of bigamy.
  2. involving bigamy.

Origin of bigamous

1860-65; Late Latin bigamus, equivalent to bi- bi-1 + Greek -gamos -gamous

Examples for bigamous

The bigamous duchess fell into the hands of her enemies, and was placed in confinement.

We can do no more, save humbly to recommend your Majesty to enforce the rigours of the law against this bigamous female.'

A bigamous marriage is invalid, but the bigamist is punished.

Every man to his trade, cries the bigamous cobbler, with shell-bark resonance, and tenaciously sticks to his last.

A bigamous marriage, by the ecclesiastical law of England, is simply void.

Grayson is the second prominent Democrat in the past two centuries to be accused of being in a bigamous marriage.

Just then there came along a quail, and he took the two women-deer and led them across, leaving the bigamous coyote in the lurch.

His family in riper years exhibits no higher example than a bigamous household.

For unless the indictment sets forth a valid prior marriage it is obvious that the subsequent marriage cannot be bigamous.

Smethursts victim was a Miss Bankes, with whom he had contracted a bigamous marriage.

Word Value for bigamous
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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