stuprous

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English

Etymology 1

From Latin stuprōsus, from stuprum.

Adjective

stuprous (comparative more stuprous, superlative most stuprous)

  1. (rare) Filthy, dirty; debauched.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 33, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:
      seeing himselfe engaged in so stuprous a necessitie, resolved upon an haughty enterprize [].
    • 2008, trans. Georges Eekhoud, A Strange Love, Olympia Press, 2008:
      With the cry of a tigress bending over her cub, he disengaged Guidon, who lay there unconscious, bruised, his clothes in rags and stained with stuprous filth; kissed him and raised him in his arms.

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Adjective

stuprous

  1. Alternative form of stuporous

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