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单词 digamy
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digamyn.

Brit. /ˈdɪɡəmi/, U.S. /ˈdɪɡəmi/
Etymology: < Latin digamia, < Greek διγαμία a marrying twice, < δίγαμος : see digamous adj. and -y suffix3.
1. Digamous condition or state; second marriage; re-marriage after the death of the first spouse.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [noun]
bigamya1450
remarriage1620
superinduction?c1622
digamy1635
deuterogamy1656
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie App. 17 The ordinary Priests marry once, Digamy is forbidden them.
1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity ii. v. 83 Three sorts of Digamy or Second Marriages.
1699 T. Comber Disc. Consecrating 146 Polygamy, yea Digamy, as well as marrying after a Divorce while the former Wife lives, are forbid under the Gospel.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Digamy, second marriage; marriage to a second wife after the death of the first: as bigamy, having two wives at once.
1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. v. 346 Digamy, or second marriage, is described by Athanagoras as ‘a decent adultery’.
2. = bigamy n. 1; having two wives at the same time. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > bigamy
bigamya1325
twi-wifinga1325
digamy1638
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 39 The Antick Romans, who..so hated Digamy (both in enjoying two wives at one time, and being twice married).
1761–66 Bailey's Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Digamy, a being married to two Wives at the same Time.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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