Associations to the word «Defloration»

Wiktionary

DEFLORATION, noun. The act of deflowering

Dictionary definition

DEFLORATION, noun. An act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something.
DEFLORATION, noun. The act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne