Mastupration

//mastuːˈpɹeɪʃ(ə)n// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Masturbation. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "it troubles me to think of, much more to relate, those frequent aborts and murdering of infants in their nunneries […], those rapes, incests, adulteries, mastuprations, sodomies, buggeries of monks and friars."

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"it troubles me to think of, much more to relate, those frequent aborts and murdering of infants in their nunneries […], those rapes, incests, adulteries, mastuprations, sodomies, buggeries of monks and friars."

Etymology

An alteration of masturbation, apparently to resemble or provide overtones of Latin manus (“hand”) + stupro (“defile”).

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