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anthropophagy
[ an-thruh-pof-uh-jee ]
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- an·thro·po·phag·ic [an-thr, uh, -p, uh, -, faj, -ik, -, fey, -jik], an·thro·po·phag·i·cal an·thro·poph·a·gous [an-thr, uh, -, pof, -, uh, -g, uh, s], adjective
- anthro·poph·a·gous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anthropophagy1
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Example Sentences
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.
Anthropophagy is not at all a prevalent custom among primitive tribes, as is generally believed.
As a fact, anthropophagy is certainly a decadent thing, not a primitive one.
To eat a creature which had become the peer of man in blood-guiltiness and in judicial punishment, would savour of anthropophagy.
These ideas, therefore, also probably represent the origin of anthropophagy.
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