constupration

English

Noun

constupration (countable and uncountable, plural constuprations)

1. (archaic) The act of ravishing; violation; defilement.
   • 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volumes (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:

     Had not that constupration been partly violent, their punishment had not been so easy

   • 1868, D. Spillan and Cyrus Edmonds (translators), Titus Livius (author), The History of Rome, books 9–26:

     I will neither see my native city demolished and burnt, nor the matrons, virgins, and free-born youths of Campania dragged to constupration.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “constupration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)