Meaning of DEFLORATION
| Pronunciation: | | `deflu'reyshun
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- [n] the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse)
- [n] an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something
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| | See Also: | | carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, congress, copulation, damage, harm, hurt, intercourse, relation, scathe, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Def`lo*ra"tion\, n. [LL. defloratio: cf. F.
d['e]floration.]
1. The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.
--Johnson.
2. That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part;
careful culling or selection. [R.]
The laws of Normandy are, in a great measure, the
defloration of the English laws. --Sir M. Hale.
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