psychopomp

[sahy-koh-pomp]

noun

1. a person who conducts spirits or souls to the other world, as Hermes or Charon.

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychopomp¹

First recorded in 1860–65, psychopomp is from the Greek word psȳchopompós conductor of souls. See psycho-, pomp

Example Sentences

That’s when he is greeted, in a kind of nightclub limbo, by Chimney Man — so called because this forbidding psychopomp, played by the fascinatingly strict Billy Porter, sweeps souls to their destination.

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Well, really two, if you count the supernatural one: a psychopomp, or collector of souls of the recently dead.

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He’s focusing on “psychopomp work” – the guiding of newly dead souls into the afterlife.

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Those same people call her a psychopomp — someone who acts as a link between this world and the next for others.

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There were ogres and villains, psychopomps, messengers, and mentors.

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