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necrogamies

necrogamies is the plural of necrogamy.

Meaning of necrogamy

Noun

necrogamy (countable and uncountable, plural necrogamies)

  1. Posthumous marriage, a legal state where a deceased person is retroactively considered to have been married for legal purposes, such as inheritance.
    • These accounts seem to imply, indeed to depict, necrogamy (copulation with a corpse) in the netherworld…2009 May, Peter Metevelis, “Japanese Flood Myths”, in Japanese Mythology and the Primeval World: A Comparative Symbolic Approach, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 425

Questions about necrogamies

What is necrogamies the plural of?
Necrogamies is the plural of necrogamy.

Words near necrogamies in the dictionary

  1. necroenzyme
  2. necroenzymes
  3. necroes
  4. necrofauna
  5. necrofetishism
  6. necrogamies
  7. necrogamy
  8. necrogenic
  9. necrogenous
  10. necrogranuloma
  11. necrographer

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