digamist
English
Etymology
digamy + -ist
Noun
digamist (plural digamists)
- One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.
- 1653, Henry Hammond, Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament
- Then for the other interpretation , that here the digamist, or he that hath had two wives successively one after another , should be made uncapable of holy orders
- 1653, Henry Hammond, Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament
Related terms
- bigamist
References
digamist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913