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Meanings of cannibalism in English
Synonyms
Examples for "anthropophagy"
Examples for "anthropophagy"
1
According to anthropophagy, negroes are best, and white people most detestable.
2
As a fact, anthropophagy is certainly a decadent thing, not a primitive one.
3
This is called anthropophagy or cannibalism, and is a time-honored custom among some of the tribes of Africa.
4
It's what anthropologists call ritual anthropophagy.
5
The natives, if they return to their tribe (al monte), or find themselves pressed by hunger, soon resume their old habits of anthropophagy.
Usage of cannibalism in English
1
Similar lesions made in multiparous experienced females do not result in cannibalism.
2
Roth also thinks cannibalism could address issues of hunger and the environment.
3
The cannibalism of the Maoris especially made people shy of the country.
4
By Osiris the people were taught agriculture; Isis weaned them from cannibalism.
5
The few remaining people were so starved that cannibalism was openly practised.
6
Grant tries to discover what's causing the outbreak of hysteria and cannibalism.
7
Then, with the awful prospect of cannibalism before us, we drew lots.
8
They were to assist, without doubt, at the same scene of cannibalism.
9
But it would certainly have been cannibalism if they had cooked him.-M.
10
And I learned that the Utes had a huge taboo against cannibalism.
11
Pindar declines, as we have seen, to accuse a god of cannibalism.
12
And, just as of yore, death, famine, barbarity, cannibalism shadow the earth.
13
Apparent egg cannibalism was investigated in the beach-spawning California grunion Leuresthes tenuis.
14
They glorify rape and murder fantasies, as well as cannibalism and necrophilia.
15
So you see, cannibalism between adults-ofany kind, sexual or not-israre.
16
The act of cannibalism drove her into an abyss of black space.
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United Kingdom
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