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Necrophily

//nɪˈkɹɒfəli// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Necrophilia. uncountable

    "1942: By this necrophily, and a pervasive nastiness about sex …, millions were raised to a state of rapture. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 173)"

Etymology

From necro- + -phily. Compare the earlier necrophilia.

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