English

Noun

octogamy ‎(uncountable)

1. A marrying eight times.
   • Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue (lines 30-34)

     Eek wel I woot, he seyde myn housbonde
     Sholde lete fader and mooder, and take to me.
     But of no nombre mencion made he,
     Of bigamie, or of octogamie;
     Why should men thanne speke of it vileynie?