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Noun: necrolatry
  1. Superstitious worship or veneration of the dead.
    "We have already seen that necrolatry existed in ancient Japan, and, as necrolatry is a worship of the dead in general, if descendants are to have a worship of their dead ancestors as a necrolatry, in that case a form of ancestor worship naturally comes to pass."

Derived forms: necrolatries

Type of: worship

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