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单词 defloration
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deflorationn.

/dɛflɒˈreɪʃən/
Forms: In Middle English defloracioun, Middle English–1500s defloracion, defloracyon, 1500s defloratioun, deflouration.
Etymology: < Old French defloracion (14th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < Latin dēflōrātiōn-em plucking of flowers, of virginity, noun of action from dēflōrāre to deflower v.
The action of deflower v.
1. The action of deflowering a virgin.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > defilement of chastity or woman
brucheeOE
corruption1340
defoulingc1380
stuprea1382
deflorationc1400
defloweringc1400
violationc1450
vitiating1547
devirgination1606
vitiation1635
unmaidening1693
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxi. 141 Þe defloracioun of maydens.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 196 b/2 Tellyng to hir the place & tyme of hir defloracion.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vi. i. f. 65/2 He..complanit heuyly ye defloration of his dochteris.
1763 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 18 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2569 I have..not quite the strength of Hercules; so that I will not undertake, like him, fifty deflorations in one night.
1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 71 Opinions generally entertained on the subject of Defloration.
1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 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.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > extract > [noun] > making extracts
defloration1387
abstracting?1569
excerpting1867
excerption1883
extraction1894
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (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.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A3 The common printed Chronicle, which is..but an Epitome or Defloration made by Robert of Lorraine.
1696 Mrs. Ray in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) (Camden) 203 Your History, were it reasonable for me to beg the defloration of it, would afford the greatest ornaments to it.
1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. Pref. 8 The Historia Britonum out of which he says, he made those deflorations.
1890 R. Ellis in Hermathena XVI. 184 The deflorations or MSS. containing excerpts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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