Obs. [n. of action f. L. constuprāre: see prec. So in F. (Cotgrave).] Ravishing, violation of chastity.
1611. Cotgr., Constupration, a constupration, ravishing, deflouring, defiling of a woman.
1612–5. Bp. Hall, Contempl. O. T., XVI. iv. Had not that constupration beene partly violent.
1652. Peyton, Catastr. Ho. Stuarts (1731), 22. Most of his Wisdom consisting in such Constuprations.
1755. Johnson, Ravishment, violation, forcible constupration.
