bigamist

American  

[big-uh-mist] / ˈbɪg ə mɪst /

noun

1. a person who commits bigamy.

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Other Word Forms

• bigamistic adjective
• bigamistically adverb

Etymology

Origin of bigamist

First recorded in 1625–35; bigam(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

At first, I was watching and thought,"Is this going into 'Mrs. Wilson' territory? That miniseries where Ruth Wilson's had a bigamist spy grandfather?"

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2020

Skalnick was a serial con artist and, later, a bigamist who admitted to Dailey’s jury that he had been charged with “grand theft,” but “not murder, not rape, not physical violence in my life.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 5, 2020

A woman who risked her life by hiding a Jewish friend during World War Two, but ended up being disgraced as a bigamist, may finally have her heroic actions honoured by the state of Israel.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2016

Caught In the Net Ray Cooney’s sequel to his comedy “Run For Your Wife” about a bigamist cab driver in England.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2014

The man who might have been a bigamist, who might have had two sons perish as part of the Forty-Eighth.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse