bigamous
Speech parts
1. bigamous - Adjective
2. bigamous - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage.
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Bassey's mother listed her first husband, Alfred Metcalfe, as her own father in the registry of her marriage to Henry Bassey, giving rise to speculation that this marriage was bigamous in the absence of a prior divorce.
Campbell later played the part of a bigamous demon in The X-Files episode, " Terms of Endearment ".
However, the divorce had never been completed, making Rachel's marriage to Jackson bigamous and therefore invalid.
He is, indeed, a sinner: he attempts to enter into a bigamous marriage with Jane and, when that fails, tries to persuade her to become his mistress.
Similarly, the current ban on bigamous or trigamous marriages works in favour of only those Hindu women who choose to sue their husbands in a court of law.
Notably for the bigamous nature of the plot, Maxwell himself was married to another woman and thus Braddon was unable to marry him until his wife died in 1874.