anthropophagy
[ an-thruh-pof-uh-jee ]
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noun
the eating of human flesh; cannibalism.
Origin of anthropophagy
1Other words from anthropophagy
- an·thro·po·phag·ic [an-thruh-puh-faj-ik, -fey-jik], /ˌæn θrə pəˈfædʒ ɪk, -ˈfeɪ dʒɪk/, an·thro·po·phag·i·cal, an·thro·poph·a·gous [an-thruh-pof-uh-guhs], /ˌæn θrəˈpɒf ə gəs/, adjective
- an·thro·poph·a·gous·ly, adverb
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How to use anthropophagy in a sentence
Surely it thematizes globalization and post-colonial cultural collisions, with a nod to neoconcrete anthropophagy?
anthropophagy springs from different causes, and clothes itself in various forms.
The Desert World | Arthur Manginanthropophagy is not at all a prevalent custom among primitive tribes, as is generally believed.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm WundtAs a fact, anthropophagy is certainly a decadent thing, not a primitive one.
Orthodoxy | G. K. ChestertonTo eat a creature which had become the peer of man in blood-guiltiness and in judicial punishment, would savour of anthropophagy.
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals | Edmund P. Evans
These ideas, therefore, also probably represent the origin of anthropophagy.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt
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