Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice or custom of eating human flesh; cannibalism.
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Examples
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We are not aware that the reverend missionaries have given any statistical tables, showing a regularity in the annual numbers of consumed persons, male and female, classed according to the reasons why consumed; but no one can doubt that such tables might be given, and if so, the whole question of anthropophagism could be very easily buckled up in a tidy little valise.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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As yet, however, there were no symptoms of such a dire disaster; they were in excellent health and tolerable spirits; they had provisions enough to last them for six months at least, and consequently had not as yet, at all events, the slightest occasion to manifest a tendency to anthropophagism.
Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien
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