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Defloration

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DEFLORATION. The act by which a woman is deprived of her virginity.
     2. When this is done unlawfully, and against her will, it bears the name of rape, (q.v.) when she consents, it is fornication. (q.v.)
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Charges of seduction, defloration and breach of promise which resulted in illegitimacy are scattered among the cases heard by the VOC's Court of Justice and, after the late 1820s when the British overhauled the justice system, by the magistrates' courts and the Supreme Court of the Cape.
Illegitimacy and family formation in colonial Cape Town, to c. 1850 by Malherbe, Vertrees C. / Journal of Social History
As read with professional decorum by the author, a former editor of The New York Times Magazine, it tells us of Jackie's defloration in a Paris elevator, Jack's well-publicized liaison with Marilyn Monroe, and both Jack and Jackie shooting speed in the White House, among other indiscretions.
KLEIN IS `ALL TOO' FOCUSED ON KENNEDYS' BODILY WOES by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
To the unconscious mind, defloration is the repetition of the fantasied
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