deflowering

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈflaʊ(w)əɹɪŋ(ɡ)/

Verb

deflowering

1. present participle and gerund of deflower

Noun

deflowering (plural deflowerings)

1. The breaking of the hymen of a virgin.
   • 1794, Emanuel Swedenborg, “Of the Lust of Defloration”, in [anonymous], transl., The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love: […] Translated from the Latin […], London: […] R. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, paragraph 503, page 463:

     Some adulterers are impelled by the cupidity of deflowering virgins, and thence also of deflowering young girls in their harmleſs age: […]

   • 2005 Muhammad Khalid Masud et al - Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and Their Judgements

     If a midwife testifies that the wound is old, then deflowering may have occurred prior to the husband's initial penetration of his wife.