Meanings
stuprous1
comparative more stuprous · superlative most stuprous
- rareFilthy, dirty; debauched.
seeing himselfe engaged in so stuprous a necessitie, [he] resolved upon an haughty enterprize[…].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 33, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC1 more example
With the cry of a tigress bending over her cub, he disengaged Guidon, who lay there unconscious, bruised, his clothes in rags and stained with stuprous filth; kissed him and raised him in his arms.
2008, trans. Georges Eekhoud, A Strange Love, Olympia Press, 2008
stuprous2
- alternativeAlternative form of stuporous.
Origin
stuprous · adjective
- Latinstuprōsus
- Englishstuprous
From Latin stuprōsus, from stuprum.
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