coition
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English
Etymology
From the oblique stem of Latin coitiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
coition (usually uncountable, plural coitions)
- (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Together with Some Marginall Observations, and a Table Alphabeticall at the End.">…], 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:
- their coition is made by supersaliency, like that of horses, as we are informed by some who have beheld them in that act
- 1907, Byron Robinson, The Abdominal and Pelvic Brain with Automatic Visceral Ganglia, page 233:
- A mare put to a stallion fell dead at the end of coition.
- 1961, D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious:
- Sex without the consummating act of coition is never quite sex, in human relationships: just as a eunuch is never quite a man.
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coitus — see coitus