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defloration|dɛflɒˈreɪʃən|
In 4–5 -acioun, 5–6 -acion, -acyon, 6 -atioun, deflouration.
[a. OF. defloracion (14th c. in Hatzf.), ad. L. dēflōrātiōn-em plucking of flowers, of virginity, n. of action from dēflōrāre to deflower.]
The action of the verb deflower.
1. The action of deflowering a virgin.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxi. 141 Þe defloracioun of maydens. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 196 b/2 Tellyng to hir the place & tyme of hir defloracion. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 199 He..complanit hevily the defloration of his dochteris. 1763Chesterfield Lett. IV. ccclxxvi. 198. 1803 Med. Jrnl. IX. 71 Opinions generally entertained on the subject of Defloration. 1883Syd. Soc. Lex., Defloration, a term for sexual connexion for the first time without violence, in distinction from rape.
2. The culling or excerpting of the flowers or finest parts of a book; a selection of choice passages.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 271 Þe whiche book þis Robert defloured solempneliche, and took out þe beste, so þat it semed þat þat defloracioun is now more worþy þan al þe grete volume. 1612Selden in Drayton's Poly-olb. To Rdr. A iij, The common printed Chronicle, which is..but an Epitome or Defloration made by Robert of Lorraine. 1696Ray in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 203 Your History, were it reasonable for me to beg the defloration of it, would afford the greatest ornaments to it. 1747Carte Hist. Eng. I. Pref. 8 The Historia Britonum out of which he says, he made those deflorations. 1890R. Ellis in Hermathena XVI. 184 The deflorations or MSS. containing excerpts. |
