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anthropophagies

anthropophagies is the plural of anthropophagy.

Meaning of anthropophagy

Noun

anthropophagy (usually uncountable, plural anthropophagies)

  1. (usually) The act or practice of eating human flesh, especially in the context of human cannibalism
    • Other paraphilias are more blatantly transgressive and usually illegal: amokoscisia (desire to slash or mutilate females); anthropophagy (cannibalism); anthropophagolagnia (rape accompanied by cannibalism); […]2013, RJ Parker, Peter Vronsky, Michael Newton, Serial Killers True Crime Anthology 2014, volume I, page 29

Questions about anthropophagies

What is anthropophagies the plural of?
Anthropophagies is the plural of anthropophagy.

Words near anthropophagies in the dictionary

  1. anthropopauses
  2. anthropopeia
  3. anthropophagi
  4. anthropophagic
  5. anthropophagical
  6. anthropophagies
  7. anthropophaginian
  8. anthropophaginians
  9. anthropophagism
  10. anthropophagist
  11. anthropophagistic

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