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digamist

digamist noun: one who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.

Noun

digamist (plural digamists)

  1. One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.
    • 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 orders1653, Henry Hammond, Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament

Forms of digamist

pluraldigamists

Origin of digamist

From digamy + -ist.

Questions about digamist

What does digamist mean?
Digamist means one who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.
What part of speech is digamist?
Digamist is a noun.
What is the plural of digamist?
The plural of digamist is digamists.

Words near digamist in the dictionary

  1. digamasellid
  2. digamasellids
  3. Digambara
  4. digametic
  5. digamies
  6. digamist
  7. digamists
  8. digamma
  9. digamma function
  10. digamma functions
  11. digammas

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