constuprationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

constupration (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 constuprations)

1. (archaic) The act of ravishing; violation; defilement.
   • 1614, Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

     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.