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Слово "bigamist". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера
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bigamist
[ˈbɪgəmɪst] существительное двоеженец; двумужница
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- "Joe, do you mark him; he's a bigamist;" or,"Видал, Джо? Это двоеженец", илиМоби Дик, или Белый кит. Герман Мелвилл, стр. 54
- Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church’s law, though no wits, all gone—even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist.” “I don’t see where the joke comes in there either!” I said; and I did not feel particularly pleased with him for saying such things. He laid his hand on my arm, and said:— “Friend John, forgive me if I pain. I showed not my feeling to others when it would wound, but only to you, my old friend, whom I can trust. If you could have looked into my very heart then when I want to laugh; if you could have done so when the laugh arrived; if you could do so now, when King Laugh have pack up his crown, and all that is to him—for he go far, far away from me, and for a long, long time—maybe you would perhaps pity me the most of all.” I was touched by the tenderness of his tone, and asked why. “Because I know!”Выходит, у прелестной девы множество мужей. И я, для которого моя бедная жена мертва, хотя жива по законам церкви, даже я, честнейший муж этой не вполне существующей жены, оказался двоеженцем.Дракула. Брэм Стокер, стр. 211
- “Bigamy is an ugly word!—I meant, however, to be a bigamist; but fate has out-manoeuvred me, or Providence has checked me,—perhaps the last.- И все-таки я собирался стать двоеженцем. Как видите, судьба посмеялась надо мной, а может быть, провидение вмешалось в мои дела, - будем считать, что это перст провидения.Джейн Эйр. Шарлотта Бронте, стр. 324