constupration

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noun

The act of ravishing; violation or defilement.

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Meanings

nounconstupration (countable and uncountable, plural constuprations)

plural constuprations

  1. archaiccountableuncountableThe act of ravishing; violation or defilement.

    constupration of Nuns

    1817, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, British Monarchism
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    Had not that constupration been partly violent, their punishment had not been so easy

    1612–1634, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London, →OCLC

    I will neither see my native city demolished and burnt, nor the matrons, virgins, and free-born youths of Campania dragged to constupration.

    1868, D. Spillan and Cyrus Edmonds (translators), Titus Livius (author), The History of Rome, books 9–26
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