necrophiliacn.adj.

1945 J. Kerouac Let. 6 Sept. in J. Kerouac & A. Ginsberg Lett. (2010) 23 Perhaps you feel like a necrophiliac, maybe..this business of wrestling around with an unconscious woman is the closest thing there is to necrophilia.

1962 John o' London's 14 June 583/3 Lazarus..is trotted out..presumably for the benefit of any necrophiliacs in the audience.

1969 C. Allen Textbk. Psychosexual Disorders (ed. 2) xi. 256 Necrophiliacs are very rare, some are insane and inaccessible, and infrequently consult the psychiatrist.

1985 M. Bogin tr. I. Allende House of Spirits i. 32 He must have thought I was a madman, one of those crazed necrophiliacs who sometimes haunt cemetries.

1995 Guardian 1 May i. 10/5 The trial of an alleged serial-killing necrophiliac known as the ‘Hippopotamus’ has become the most publicised case to go before Russia's experimental jury system.

2000 D. Brooks Bobos in Paradise 192 Every ‘affirmation group’..seeks a place in the land of the up-and-up: the bestiality community, the necrophiliacs, the cigar fetishists, [etc.].

1959 20th Cent. Dec. 426 In ghoulism the necrophiliac traffic is one way as it were.

1961 D. MacDonagh in L. O'Flaherty Informer 188 He anticipated the necrophiliac comedy of Evelyn Waugh, The Loved one.

1974 Country Life 23 May 1269/1 The sadistic and even necrophiliac horrors of the Symbolists.

1998 Daily Tel. 8 Jan. 7/1 A film about a necrophiliac young woman has been passed for cinema release.