Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of ravishing; violation; defilement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of ravishing; violation; defilement.

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  • noun archaic The act of ravishing; violation; defilement.

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Examples

  • Five provinces have declared for young Stadt, and there will be inundation, conflagration, constupration, consternation, and every sort of nation and nations, fighting away, up to their knees, in the damnable quags of this will-o'-the-wisp abode of Boors.

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815

  • Five provinces have declared for young Stadt, and there will be inundation, conflagration, constupration, consternation, and every sort of nation and nations, fighting away, up to their knees, in the damnable quags of this will-o'-the-wisp abode of Boors.

    The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • He was born at Vulsinii, son to Sejus Strabo, a Roman knight; in his early youth, he was a follower of Caius Caesar (grandson of Augustus) and lay then under the contumely of having for hire exposed himself to the constupration of Apicius; a debauchee wealthy and profuse: next by various artifices he so enchanted Tiberius, that he who to all others was dark and unsearchable, became to Sejanus alone destitute of all restraint and caution: nor did he so much accomplish this by any superior efforts of policy (for at his own stratagems he was vanquished by others) as by the rage of the Gods against the Roman State, to which he proved alike destructive when he flourished and when he fell.

    The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola Caius Cornelius Tacitus

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