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Meanings of anthropophagy in anglès

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Practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

        antropofàgia

        The eating of human flesh.

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              Examples for "cannibalism"
              Examples for "cannibalism"
              1
              Similar lesions made in multiparous experienced females do not result in cannibalism.
              Pubmed
              2
              Roth also thinks cannibalism could address issues of hunger and the environment.
              Wired
              3
              The cannibalism of the Maoris especially made people shy of the country.
              Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World /...
              4
              By Osiris the people were taught agriculture; Isis weaned them from cannibalism.
              The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval Hi...
              5
              The few remaining people were so starved that cannibalism was openly practised.
              My Four Years in Germany
              Usage of anthropophagy in anglès
              1
              According to anthropophagy, negroes are best, and white people most detestable.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881
              2
              As a fact, anthropophagy is certainly a decadent thing, not a primitive one.
              Orthodoxy
              3
              This is called anthropophagy or cannibalism, and is a time-honored custom among some of the tribes of Africa.
              Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
              4
              It's what anthropologists call ritual anthropophagy.
              Fatal Voyage
              5
              The natives, if they return to their tribe (al monte), or find themselves pressed by hunger, soon resume their old habits of anthropophagy.
              Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...