necrogamy

English

Etymology

From necro- +‎ -gamy.

Noun

necrogamy (countable and uncountable, plural necrogamies)

  1. Posthumous marriage, a legal state where a dead person is retroactively considered to have been married for legal purposes, such as inheritance.
    Synonyms: ghost marriage, posthumous marriage
    • 2009 May, Peter Metevelis, “Japanese Flood Myths”, in Japanese Mythology and the Primeval World: A Comparative Symbolic Approach, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 425:
      These accounts seem to imply, indeed to depict, necrogamy (copulation with a corpse) in the netherworld…
    • 2019 March 5, Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN:
      If you‘ve ever utilized the website Ancestry.com, you‘ve also gone to the Mormons for help. Family ancestry and genealogy are definitely their jam. When there‘s polygamy in your church history, big families happen. What I didn‘t realize is that something called necrogamy is also their jam. Yes, you read that correctly. Necrogamy. The process of marrying the dead.
    • 2020, Mbosowo Bassey Udok, “Chapter 16: Theological Response to the Culture of Necrogamy in Ibibio Land”, in Handbook of Research on the Impact of Culture in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 268:
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