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Bigamist

Bigamist \Big"a*mist\, n. [Cf. Digamist.] One who is guilty of bigamy.
--Ayliffe.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bigamist

1630s; see bigamy + -ist. Earlier in the same sense was bigame (mid-15c.), from Old French bigame, from Medival Latin bigamus.

Wiktionary
bigamist

n. one who practices bigamy

WordNet
bigamist

n. someone who marries one person while already legally married to another

Usage examples of "bigamist".

She had often heard of bigamy, and that her husband should prove to be a bigamist did not throw her into a swoon.

Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable .

The letters of bigamists and polygamists are rich in poetical extracts.

The letters of bigamists and polygamists are rich in poetical extracts.

The cooks down to a woman were all murderers, as well as the maids and yard workers, with a few thieves and one five-time bigamist thrown in for good measure.

The background check exposed one bigamist, who was held for extradition to Coahoma County, Mississippi.

It applies equally to bigamists, confidence tricksters, thieves, and murderers.

And when he'd found out that he had been a bigamist and a fraudster he had liked him even less.