What is "bigamous"

Usage examples of "bigamous".

Do you mean to intimate that I'd perform a bigamous marriage knowing that it was bigamous?

John Eyre, who knew the Mason family and was determined to keep his niece from making a bigamous marriage.

Rochester deals with this problem by hiding his mad wife away in the attic and trying to trick Jane into a bigamous marriage.

Eyre, who knew Richard Mason, decided the wedding had to be stopped in order to save his niece from the disgrace of a bigamous marriage.

Finally, Rochester tells Jane that he now knows he was wrong to try to trick her into a bigamous marriage.

With pretending she had a divorce, taking Hastings’ money, assuring him that she was using it to get a divorce, then sending him word that the divorce had been granted, getting a lump-sum settlement, sitting silently on the sidelines while he went through what apparently was a bigamous marriage, and now showing up to claim the estate.

In fact, some days afterwards she created him Duke of Orkney, and on the 15th of the same month--that is to say, scarcely four months after the death of Darnley--with levity that resembled madness, Mary, who had petitioned for a dispensation to wed a Catholic prince, her cousin in the third degree, married Bothwell, a Protestant upstart, who, his divorce notwithstanding, was still bigamous, and who thus found himself in the position of having four wives living, including the queen.

He almost swept me off my feet, but before he did, Intelligence checked on him and dug up one legitimate and two bigamous wives back east.

She is informed that his first wife is alive and ready if necessary to come forward, that her own marriage is bigamous, her position spurious, and the status of her child illegitimate.