constupration

== English == === Noun === constupration (countable and uncountable, plural constuprations) (archaic) The act of ravishing; violation or defilement. 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. === References === “constupration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.