stuprous

English

Etymology 1

From Latin stuprōsus, from stuprum.

Adjective

stuprous (comparative more stuprous, superlative most stuprous)

1. (rare) Filthy, dirty; debauched.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 33, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     seeing himselfe engaged in so stuprous a necessitie, [he] resolved upon an haughty enterprize […].

   • 2008, trans. Georges Eekhoud, A Strange Love, Olympia Press, 2008:

     With the cry of a tigress bending over her cub, he disengaged Guidon, who lay there unconscious, bruised, his clothes in rags and stained with stuprous filth; kissed him and raised him in his arms.

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Adjective

stuprous

1. Alternative form of stuporous

Anagrams

• stupours