deflowering

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English

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /dɪˈflaʊ(w)əɹɪŋ(ɡ)/

Verb

deflowering

  1. present participle of deflower

Noun

deflowering (plural deflowerings)

  1. The breaking of the hymen of a virgin.
    • 1794, Emanuel Swedenborg, “Of the Lust of Defloration”, in The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love: […] Translated from the Latin […], London: Printed and sold by R. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, paragraph 503, page 463:
      Some adulterers are impelled by the cupidity of deflowering virgins, and thence also of deflowering young girls in their harmleſs age: […]
    • 2005 Muhammad Khalid Masud et al - Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and Their Judgements
      If a midwife testifies that the wound is old, then deflowering may have occurred prior to the husband's initial penetration of his wife.
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