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deflower, v.|dɪˈflaʊə(r)|
Forms: 4–7 deflore, defloure, 5–7 deflowre, 4–9 deflour, 6– deflower.
[a. OF. desflorer, desflourer (13th c. in Hatzf.), later defflorer, défleurer (Cotgr.), mod.F. déflorer = Pr. deflorar, Sp. desflorar, It. deflorare, repr. L. dēflōrāre to deprive of its flowers, to ravish, f. de- I. 6 + flōs, flōr-em flower. With this prob. is blended OF. desflorir, -flourir (14th c.), in 16th c. defflorir, mod.F. défleurir in same sense, and intr. The form is now assimilated to flower.]
1. trans. To deprive (a woman) of her virginity; to violate, ravish.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xx. 2 The lust of the gelding deflourede the ȝunge womman. 1393Gower Conf. II. 322 Which sigh her suster pale and fade..Of that she hadde be defloured. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxxviii. 278 The whiche..he deflowred of hyr vyrgynytie. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 196 They have thys use that whan any manne marieth, he must commit his wife to the priest to be defloured. 1611Bible Ecclus. xx. 4 As is the lust of an Eunuch to defloure a virgine. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 164 The French Indians are said not to have deflowered any of our young women they captivated.
2. fig. To violate, ravage, desecrate; to rob of its bloom, chief beauty, or excellence; to spoil.
1486in Surtees Misc. (1890) 56 This citie..Was never deflorid be force ne violence. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxii. 53 With blude and sweit was all deflorde His face. 1596Spenser Hymne Hon. Beautie 39 That wondrous paterne..layd up in secret store..that no man may it see With sinfull eyes, for feare it to deflore. 1654tr. Martini's Conq. China A iv, I will not..deflower that worth of its greatest beauty. 1660Gauden Antisacrilegus 7 It would never recover its beauty..of late so much deflored. a1716South Serm. I. i. (R.), Actual discovery (as it were) rifles and deflowers the newness and freshness of the object. 1889Lowell Walton Lit. Ess. (1891) 60 [To] find a sanctuary which telegraph or telephone had not deflowered.
†3. To cull or excerpt from (a book, etc.) its choice or most valuable parts. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 39 Þe whiche book Robert Bishop of Herforde deflorede. Ibid. VII. 271 [see defloration 2]. 1781J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain 229 After they had in a manner deflowered the mine, and got as much ore as they could easily extract.
4. To deprive or strip of flowers.
c1630Drummond of Hawthornden Poems 173 The freezing winds our gardens do defloure. 1648W. Mountague Devout Ess. i. xix. §6 (R.), An earthquake..rending the cedars, deflowering the gardens. 1800Campbell Ode to Winter 27 Deflow'ring nature's grassy robe. 1820Keats Lamia ii. 216 Garlands..From vales deflower'd, or forest trees branch-rent. |