Crossword-Solution: ANTHROPOPHAGY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anthropophagy | n. | The eating of human flesh; cannibalism. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “ANTHROPOPHAGY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| cannibalism | 1 answer |
| ANDROPHAGI | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANTHROPOPHAGY (5)
This is called anthropophagy or cannibalism, and is a time-honored custom among some of the tribes of Africa.
The latter, as often happens amongst barbarians, and even amongst civilized men, could dare to die, but were unable to face the horrors of becoming food after death: the great Cortez knew this feeling when he made his soldiers pretend anthropophagy.
They themselves declare that they eat the slain only after a battle--the sentimental form of anthropophagy.
The natives, if they return to their tribe (al monte), or find themselves pressed by hunger, soon resume their old habits of anthropophagy.
The previous speaker is in error when he ascribes the rise of anthropophagy in the first competitive struggles in human society to hunger, to the limitation of the food supply, by which the savages were driven to kill, and eventually to eat, their fellow savages.
Quotes with ANTHROPOPHAGY (2)
For, having begun to build their Tower of Babel without us, they will end in anthropophagy. And it is then that the beast will come crawling to us and lick our feet and spatter them with tears of blood from its eyes. And we shall sit upon the beast and raise the cup, and on it will be written: "Mystery!
Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits of the earth, and you hoped that, following you, man, too, would remain with God, having no need of miracles. But you did not know that as soon as man rejects miracles, he will at once reject God as well, for man seeks not so much God as miracles. And since man cannot bear to be left without miracles, he will go and create new miracles for himself... Oh, there wi…