constupration

constupration

(ˌkɒnstjʊˈpreɪʃən)
n
obsolete the act of raping or violating
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His affected air and taste for dictionary curiosa led to a teenager's case of polysyllabism (the only disease that names itself): vaticine, hemichoria, halachistic, funambulation, obtunded, spalling, constupration, intussusception, apolaustic, dumeticulture, amercing, and tallaging are attached to his essays like limpet mines.
W. M. Spackman: An Imperfect Critic
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