necrogamy
necrogamy noun: posthumous marriage, a legal state where a deceased person is retroactively considered to have been married for legal purposes, such as inheritance.
Noun
necrogamy (countable and uncountable, plural necrogamies)
- 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
- If you‘ve ever utilized the website Ancestry.com, you‘ve also gone to the Mormons for help. Family ancestry and genealogy are definitely their jam. When there‘s polygamy in your church history, big families happen. What I didn‘t realize is that something called necrogamy is also their jam. Yes, you...2019 March 5, Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- ghost marriage, posthumous marriage
Synonyms of necrogamy
Forms of necrogamy
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Origin of necrogamy
From necro- + -gamy.
Questions about necrogamy
- What does necrogamy mean?
- Necrogamy means posthumous marriage, a legal state where a deceased person is retroactively considered to have been married for legal purposes, such as inheritance.
- What part of speech is necrogamy?
- Necrogamy is a noun.
- What is the plural of necrogamy?
- The plural of necrogamy is necrogamies.
Words near necrogamy in the dictionary
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