necrophilyn.

1897 tr. T. A. Ribot Psychol. Emotions 257 I pass over the extreme cases, those of necrophily [Fr. nécrophilie], or of sexual erethism.

1905 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex IV. iv. iii. 188 Necrophily, or sexual attraction for corpses,..may perhaps be regarded as a kind of perverted sadism.

1927 Observer 8 May 6/4 His circumstances and his griefs, and his disease fostered his necrophily.

1932 V. Woolf Let. to Young Poet 20 Nekrophily induces slumber.

1939 T. S. Eliot Family Reunion i. ii. 62 Let your necrophily Feed upon that carcase.

1962 Times 4 May 20/6 The phœnix rebirth of Toscanini's N.B.C. Orchestra which continued, after the maestro's death, to give Toscanini performances until it became plain to all that photographic reproduction from memory is..a variety of necrophily.

1975 R. Graves Coll. Poems vi. 136 Prince Achilles Who, for love of that fierce white naked corpse, Necrophily on her committed In the public view.

1996 Financial Post (Canada) (Nexis) 9 Mar. ii. (Review section) 25 Under necrophily, the prime exhibit is a mad German in Key West who kept his true love's body with him for nine years,..repairing it as best he could when it deteriorated.