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anthropophagy

/an-thruh-pof-uh-jee/US // ˌæn θrəˈpɒf ə dʒi //

食人族,食人者,食人魔,食人族的行为

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

Examples

  • Surely it thematizes globalization and post-colonial cultural collisions, with a nod to neoconcrete anthropophagy?

  • Anthropophagy springs from different causes, and clothes itself in various forms.

  • Anthropophagy is not at all a prevalent custom among primitive tribes, as is generally believed.

  • As a fact, anthropophagy is certainly a decadent thing, not a primitive one.

  • To eat a creature which had become the peer of man in blood-guiltiness and in judicial punishment, would savour of anthropophagy.

  • These ideas, therefore, also probably represent the origin of anthropophagy.