ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Constupration

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Constupration is a noun meaning (archaic) The act of ravishing; violation or defilement.

Meaning

(archaic) The act of ravishing; violation or defilement.

Example Sentences

constupration of Nuns
Had not that constupration been partly violent, their punishment had not been so easy
I will neither see my native city demolished and burnt, nor the matrons, virgins, and free-born youths of Campania dragged to constupration.

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Related dictionary entries include upstir, extruction, consopiation, commixtion, compotation, concoction.

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