Meanings
plural necrogamies
- countableuncountablePosthumous marriage, a legal state where a deceased person is retroactively considered to have been married for legal purposes, such as inheritance.
These accounts seem to imply, indeed to depict, necrogamy (copulation with a corpse) in the netherworld…
2009 May 29, Peter Metevelis, “Japanese Flood Myths”, in Japanese Mythology and the Primeval World: A Comparative Symbolic Approach, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 4251 more example
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.
2019 March 5, Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBNSynonyms: ghost marriage, posthumous marriage
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nounPosthumous marriage, a legal state where a deceased person is retroactively considered to have been married for legal purposes, such as inheritance.
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necrogamy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/necrogamy
“necrogamy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/necrogamy. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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