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BIGAMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bigamy" is a kind of...):
regulatory offence; regulatory offense; statutory offence; statutory offense (crimes created by statutes and not by common law)
Derivation:
bigamist (someone who marries one person while already legally married to another)
bigamous (of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of having two spouses at the same time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("bigamy" is a kind of...):
marriage; matrimony; spousal relationship; union; wedlock (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
bigamist (someone who marries one person while already legally married to another)
