Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Stupration.
- noun In civil law, any union of the sexes forbidden by morality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Stupration.
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- noun
stupration ;rape
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just thinking about medieval Castile, which is the historical period and location I know best, Among the Visigoths adulterium (illicit sexual intercourse of many kinds) and stuprum (usually fornication with an unmarried woman or widow) were most serious matters and, while illegal sexual relations were an implicit danger in the grave offence of abduction, kidnapping for the purpose of matrimony was the pernicious offence in raptus.
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Just thinking about medieval Castile, which is the historical period and location I know best, Among the Visigoths adulterium (illicit sexual intercourse of many kinds) and stuprum (usually fornication with an unmarried woman or widow) were most serious matters and, while illegal sexual relations were an implicit danger in the grave offence of abduction, kidnapping for the purpose of matrimony was the pernicious offence in raptus.
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* Siquis absurdum esse objiciat, totum populum duos viros ad stuprum captasse: [1140] 1
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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* Si non alio remedio placari poterat eorum radies, qui viros ad stuprum flagitabant: [1137] 1
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Sin illos deserant fortissimos uiros, 15 magnum stuprum populo fieri per gentis. viii
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In eodem commentario n. 170, p. 501, impuritatis peccatum variis gradibus constare demonstrat, inter quos enumerat rhemata phthoropoia, verba ad corruptelam apta, homilias machras, longas confabulationes, quibus ad stuprum pervenitur.
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Therefore, when he passes an adverse judgment (as, for instance, upon Cesare Borgia), or notes a dark act (as the _stuprum_ committed upon Astorre Manfredi), his corroboration of historians more addicted to scandal is important.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866
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& Marcione, matrimonium nihil aliud esse quam corruptionem ac stuprum: nova præterea argumenta ad subvertendam Adami salutem excogitans.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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"seduction (_stuprum_), or rape, properly speaking, is unlawful intercourse, and takes its name from its causing corruption: wherefore he that is guilty of rape is a seducer."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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turbaque diuersa remigat omnis aqua. una Clytaemestrae stuprum uehit, altera Cressae
Cynthia Dead 1912
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