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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