bigamy🔊

A beauty-waining and distressed widow [Elizabeth Woodville], / Even in the afternoone of her best daies / Made prise and purchase of his [Edward IV's] lustfull eye, / Seduct the pitch and height of al his thoughts, / To base declension and loathd bigamie, / By her in his unlawfull bed he got.

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; [...]

The missionaries have prepared a sort of penal tariff to facilitate judicial proceedings. [...] The judge being provided with a book, in which all these matters are cunningly arranged, the thing is vastly convenient. For instance: a crime is proved,—say, bigamy; turn to letter B.—and there you have it. Bigamy:—forty days on the Broom Road, and twenty mats for the queen. Read the passage aloud, and sentence is pronounced.

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.