bigamy 的定义
plural big·a·mies.
- Law. the crime of marrying while one has a spouse still living, from whom no valid divorce has been effected.
- Ecclesiastical. any violation of canon law concerning marital status that would disqualify a person from receiving holy orders or from retaining or surpassing an ecclesiastical rank.
bigamy 近义词
等同于 polygamy
更多bigamy例句
- But Tuesday it turned out that one congressman may have ties to a far more exotic crime; bigamy.
- Bigamy, or having multiple active marriage licenses, is a third-degree felony in Utah.
- But, according to Florida law, that would qualify as bigamy.
- Already, seven FLDS men have been convicted of either bigamy, arranging child-bride marriages or sex assault of a child.
- The LDS renounced polygamy long ago in response to bigamy laws, and doesn't recognize any splinter groups that practice polygamy.
- If she had lived to marry, some mischief—making scoundrel would have procured the indictment of her husband for bigamy.
- Mrs. Johnson had been arrested on a charge of bigamy at Center, Texas, and was out on bond when she was seized.
- Now Lizzie had convicted her second husband of bigamy, and had freed herself after that fashion.
- The Squire was an unlifelike story of a case of bigamy, annulled by an unexpected death.
- There's a law against bigamy, I believe; but I'll marry them both, the maid first, the mistress afterward.