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Definition of Necrophilic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Necrophilic
Literary usage of Necrophilic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker (1910)
"The dental smile of the cataleptic Berenice as her necrophilic cousin bends over
the coffin is a testimony to a needle that in this instance matches Goya's ..."
2. Senescence, the Last Half of Life by Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"The history of Charles, too, can be paralleled in many modern instances, while
dreams show us still more clearly how necrophilic man can be. ..."
3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1888)
"... work that has been accomplished at Whitechapel are of the same class as those
who have sexual aberrations or cannibalistic and necrophilic propensities. ..."
4. Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and Its Origins in the by Robin Munro, Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry (2002)
"... voyeurism, frottage and incest); and one rarely-seen case of complex
necrophilia (involving necrophilic intercourse, dismemberment of the female corpse, ..."
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