Definition of "digamy" [dig•a•my]

• Remarriage after the death or divorce of one's first husband or wife. Also called deuterogamy. (noun)

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• "It is rather the object than the pretext which must be taken into account, but it is clear that she is exposed to the punishment of digamy."
• "In the case of trigamy and polygamy they laid down the same rule, in proportion, as in the case of digamy; namely one year for digamy"
• "Tertullian, for example, writing at the beginning of the third century says: "Among us the prescript is more fully and more carefully laid down, that they who are chosen into the sacerdotal order must be men of one marriage; which rule is so rigidly observed that I remember some removed from their office for digamy.""