Defloration : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Defloration	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Defloration
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
defloration n an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Defloration \Def`lora"tion\, n. [LL. defloratio: cf. F. d[82]floration.] 1. The act of deflouring; as, the defloration* of a virgin. --Johnson. 2. That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part; careful culling or selection. [R.] The laws of Normandy are, in a great measure, the defloration of the English laws. --Sir M. Hale.