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Deflower   Listen
verb
deflower  v. t.  (past & past part. deflowered; pres. part. deflowering)  (Previously also spelled deflour)  
1.
To deprive of flowers. "An earthquake... deflowering the gardens."
2.
To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament.
3.
To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to ravish; also, to seduce. "If a man had deflowered a virgin."





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"Deflower" Quotes from Famous Books



... warmed to make but as little resistance as would be agreeable to their inclinations, dealing out their poison to both sexes, inspiring the men with wine, and other strong liquors, and the women with love; thus they were able to deflower many a virgin, and alienate the affections of many a wife by this odd stratagem; and it is difficult to say, whether it is possible for two men to live ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume II • Theophilus Cibber
... danger: The girl so simple, as she often ask'd "Where they would lead her? for what cause they dragg'd her?" Cried, "She would do no more:" that she could take "Warning with beating." And because our laws Admit no virgin immature to die, The wittily and strangely cruel Macro Deliver'd her to be deflower'd and spoil'd, By the rude lust of the licentious hangman, Then to be strangled with her ...
— Sejanus: His Fall • Ben Jonson
... arrived, I chilled a half-hour there, Nor dared deflower with use a single chair; I caught no cold, yet flying pains could find For weeks in me,—a rheumatism of mind. One thing alone imprisoned there had power To hold me in the place that long half-hour: A scutcheon this, a helm-surmounted shield, Three griffins argent on ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... that you make her sure:— Ne'er let my heart know merry cheer indeed Till all the Andronici be made away. Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor, And let my spleenful sons this trull deflower. ...
— The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflower'd, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet those ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy


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