Coition
//kəʊˈɪʃ(ə)n// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Sexual intercourse. uncountable, usually
"their coition is made by supersaliency, like that of horses, as we are informed by some who have beheld them in that act"
- 2 sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur wordnet
Example
More examples"Just as the female ant after coition loses her wings, which then become superfluous, nay, dangerous for breeding purposes, so for the most part does a woman lose her beauty after giving birth to one or two children; and probably for the same reasons."
Etymology
From the oblique stem of Latin coitiō.
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