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French
Etymology
From Latin mōnstruōsus.
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Adjective
monstrueux (feminine monstrueuse, masculine plural monstrueux, feminine plural monstrueuses)
- monstrous
1895, R. von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis:Dans ces périodes de décadence politique et morale on a vu des aberrations monstrueuses de la vie sexuelle, mais ces aberrations ont pu, du moins en partie, être attribuées à l’état névropathologique ou psychopathologique de la population.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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