digamist

English

Etymology

digamy +‎ -ist

Noun

digamist (plural digamists)

  1. 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

References

“digamist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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