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anthropophagy.

Noun
HorrorTechnical
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The consumption of human flesh.

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  • accounts of anthropophagy
  • ritual anthropophagy

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The investigator treated the report of anthropophagy as an allegation requiring evidence.
The manuscript described anthropophagy without identifying who had made the accusation.

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Primary category: horror. Forms: Uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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