What's the difference between bigam and bigamist?

Bigam


Definition:

  • (n.) A bigamist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Good Life launched him on a much more varied theatre diet, including Ibsen's The Wild Duck at the Lyric, Hammersmith, in 1980; George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man (his was a richly nuanced, physical performance as the battle-weary Bluntschli) in 1981; Ray Cooney's Run for Your Wife (as a bigamous taxi driver, with Bernard Cribbins as his "cover" and apologist) in 1983; and Sir John Vanbrugh's The Relapse at Chichester in 1986, as the hilarious chatterbox Lord Foppington.
  • (2) The data are consistent with there being two functionally distinct types of anti-idiotype antibody: those that form predominantly intra-Ig bridges, with each antibody Fab being linked to an Fab on one target molecule ("monogamous" binding) and not favoring modulation; and those that form predominantly inter-Ig bridges ("bigamous" binding) and favor modulation.

Bigamist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is guilty of bigamy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His own childhood was less happy - his father was a bigamist who fled to Canada, while his mother died when he was just 16.

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