Meaning of necrogamy | Babel Free

Definitions

Posthumous marriage, a legal state where a deceased person is retroactively considered to have been married for legal purposes, such as inheritance.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“These accounts seem to imply, indeed to depict, necrogamy (copulation with a corpse) in the netherworld…”

“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 read⟳ that correctly. Necrogamy. The process⟳ of marrying the dead.”

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