Defloration

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Defloration \Def`lo*ra"tion\, n. [LL. defloratio: cf. F.
     d['e]floration.]
     1. The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.
        --Johnson.
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     2. That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part;
        careful culling or selection. [R.]
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              The laws of Normandy are, in a great measure, the
              defloration of the English laws.      --Sir M. Hale.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  defloration
       n 1: an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something
       2: the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by
          rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse)

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DEFLORATION. The act by which a woman is deprived of her virginity. 
       2. When this is done unlawfully, and against her will, it bears the 
  name of rape, (q.v.) when she consents, it is fornication. (q.v.)