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Example sentences for "bigamous"

Lexicographically close words:
bifurcation; bifurcations; big; biga; bigamist; bigamy; bigan; bigelovia; bigg; bigge
  1. The story of Arnott's bigamous marriage enraged him.

  2. The fever of desire which had led to his bigamous marriage still fired his blood, and moved him to passionate rebellion against Pamela's decree.

  3. By an odd chance, as though an ironic fate decreed that this child should perpetuate the older shame of his parents' bigamous marriage with the later shame of his own birth, the baby was born on the anniversary of the wedding day.

  4. No one, save themselves and Lucy Arnott, knew of his bigamous second marriage.

  5. Her marriage with Vansittart would be a bigamous one.

  6. Since the original statute of 1870, in Wyoming, a bigamous contract or a marriage where the persons are related within the forbidden degrees, or where either is insane or an idiot, is void without judicial decree.

  7. Bigamous marriages and those within the forbidden degrees of consanguinity are void without decree or other legal proceedings.

  8. In 1851, seven years before the admission of that state to the Union, a statute logically declared bigamous marriages and those within the forbidden degrees, if solemnized in the territory, void without a decree.

  9. In 1854 the third and fourth causes were dropped; bigamous contracts and those entered into through compulsion or fraud being now properly treated as grounds for annulment of void or voidable marriages.

  10. Bigamous marriage and desertion with adultery no longer appear as causes; while the fourth ground, as above enumerated, is so modified as to require a separate statement for the husband and wife respectively.

  11. Bigamous marriages were, of course, void from the beginning.

  12. They were already acquainted with its character; and before the bigamous bridegroom could speak a word of protest, their horny hands were laid upon his shoulder, ready, at resistance, to clutch him by the collar!

  13. And if he should succeed in his bigamous scheme, what then?

  14. Henry VII, in high-handed fashion, presented it to the Earl of Bedford; and a subsequent occupant was the notorious Elizabeth Chudleigh, the bigamous spouse of the Duke of Kingston.

  15. Great doubt has, however, been cast on the legality of this marriage, as it would, if in all respects valid, have rendered null as a bigamous contract the subsequent marriage entered into by the King.

  16. As if to emphasise the scandal the bigamous ceremony was performed according to all the rites of the Church by the Duke's chaplain, Dr.

  17. Strange to say, historians have passed over this foolish and gratuitous infamy with comparative indifference, as if the period and the notorious characters of the bigamous couple made further comment unnecessary.

  18. Luther then enters upon a brief discussion of the bigamous relationships which were created by the Mosaic laws, and explains that legislation as emergency legislation.

  19. One might go more exhaustively into the evidence, but the materials here submitted will suffice to convince most men that, while Luther's advice to Philip did create a bigamous relation, Luther was not a defender of bigamy.

  20. Catholics fail to mention that Luther repelled bigamous thoughts in Philip of Hesse fourteen years before the Landgrave took Margaret von der Saal.

  21. In the same manner Luther had expressed the opinion that it would have been easier to condone a bigamous relation in Henry VIII of England than the unjust divorce which the king was seeking.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bigamous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.