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"ref": "1584, “The Storie of Saint Margaret Prooued to be Both Ridiculous and Impious in Euerie Point”, in The Discoverie of Witchcraft, […], London: […] William Brome, →OCLC, book XV (The Exposition of Iidoni, […]), pages 459–460",
"text": "But now we may find in S. Margarets life, who it is that is Chriſtes wife: whereby we are ſo much wiſer than we were before. But looke in the life of S. Katharine, in the golden legend, and you ſhall find that he was alſo married to S. Katharine, and that our ladie made the marriage, &c. An excellent authoritie for bigamie.",
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"ref": "1661, Thomas Wilson, John Bagwell, Andrew Simson, “Not to take a Wife to her Sister”, in A Complete Christian Dictionary: […], 7th edition, London: […] Thomas Williams […], →OCLC, page 592",
"text": "Not to take a Wife to her Siſter] Not to take one Wife to another, or not to have at once two Wives. This ſentence condemneth Bigamie, and Polygamie, having two or more Wives together, Lev[iticus] 18. 18. Neither ſhalt thou take a Wife to her Siſter to vex her.",
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"ref": "1720, John Johnson, “Supposed Constitutions of Archbishop Reynold’s”, in A Collection of All the Ecclesiastical Laws, Canons, Answers, or Rescripts, with Other Memorials Concerning the Government, Discipline and Worship of the Church of England. […], 2nd part, London: […] Robert Knaplock […], and Samuel Ballard […], →OCLC",
"text": "It is the Complaint of many that ſecular Judges and others make an Objection of Bigamy againſt Clerks when they are taken and impriſon'd for their Crimes, and demand to be ſent to the Eccleſiaſtical Court; [...] Farther he who marries a Widow, or two Women oftentimes does not contract Bigamy according to them, and they do not eſteem ſome to be Bigamiſts, who really are ſo.",
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"ref": "1807, W[illia]m Blackstone, Edward Christian, “Of the Clergy”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, […], Portland, Me.: […] Thomas B. Wait, & Co., →OCLC, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), footnote 2, page 377",
"text": "This is a peculiar privilege of the clergy, that sentence of death can never be passed upon them for any number of manslaughters, bigamies, simple larcenies, or other clergyable offences; [...]",
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"ref": "1868 February 15, “Mr. Sala on Sensationalism”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume XXV, number 642, London: Published at the office, […], →OCLC, page 201, column 1",
"text": "The providers of our sensational fiction [...] have gone on describing murders, bigamies, and forgeries, forgeries, bigamies, and murders, until at length these crimes have become about the most commonplace acts that a hero or heroine can perform.",
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"ref": "1999, Stephen King, “Hearts in Atlantis”, in Hearts in Atlantis, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, published November 2017, chapter IV (Ted Goes Blank, Bobby Goes to the Beach. McQuown. The Winkle.), page 95",
"text": "Anita laughed and hugged him and told him he was the best kid in the world, if he was fifteen years older she'd commit bigamy and marry him. Sully-John blushed until he was purple.",
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"ref": "2015, Maia McAleavey, “Introduction”, in The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University of Cambridge, page 6",
"text": "One of nineteenth-century Britain's most important pieces of marriage law legislation, the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857, immediately preceded the explosion of bigamy novels in the early 1860s. [...] Bigamy plots thus suggest a literary-historical asymmetry: just when middle-class Victorians no longer needed to commit bigamy, or, for that matter, murder, to get rid of an unwanted first spouse, bigamy was transformed from a real crime into a popular narrative device.",
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"word": "ᎠᏓᏲᏁᏗ"
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"lang": "Persian",
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"word": "دو زن داری"
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"word": "تعدد زوجات"
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"ref": "1624, [John Rastell], “Bigamie”, in Les Termes de la Ley: Or, Certaine Difficult and Obscure VVords and Termes of the Common Lawes of This Realme Expounded. […], new edition, London: […] Company of Stationers, →OCLC, folio 45, recto and verso",
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"ref": "1584, “The Storie of Saint Margaret Prooued to be Both Ridiculous and Impious in Euerie Point”, in The Discoverie of Witchcraft, […], London: […] William Brome, →OCLC, book XV (The Exposition of Iidoni, […]), pages 459–460",
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"text": "It is the Complaint of many that ſecular Judges and others make an Objection of Bigamy againſt Clerks when they are taken and impriſon'd for their Crimes, and demand to be ſent to the Eccleſiaſtical Court; [...] Farther he who marries a Widow, or two Women oftentimes does not contract Bigamy according to them, and they do not eſteem ſome to be Bigamiſts, who really are ſo.",
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"ref": "1999, Stephen King, “Hearts in Atlantis”, in Hearts in Atlantis, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, published November 2017, chapter IV (Ted Goes Blank, Bobby Goes to the Beach. McQuown. The Winkle.), page 95",
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"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bigamia"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"word": "bigamie"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bigamíja",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "бигами́я"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dvoježónstvo",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "двоежёнство"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dà-chèileachas"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "бига̀мија"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "дво̀же̄нство"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "bigàmija"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "dvòžēnstvo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bigamia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"word": "bigami"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"word": "bigamiya"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"word": "pagdadalawang-asawa"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bihamíja",
"sense": "state of having two spouses simultaneously",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "бігамі́я"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vtori brak",
"sense": "second marriage after the death of a spouse",
"word": "втори брак"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "second marriage after the death of a spouse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bigàmia"
}
],
"word": "bigamy"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": polyandry vs. taʕaddud al-ʔazwāj",
"path": [
"bigamy"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "bigamy",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": polygyny vs. taʕaddud az-zawjāt",
"path": [
"bigamy"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "bigamy",
"trace": ""
}
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