stuprous

English

Etymology 1

From Latin stuprōsus, from stuprum.

Adjective

stuprous (comparative more stuprous, superlative most stuprous)

  1. (rare) Filthy, dirty; debauched.
    • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
      , II.33:
      seeing himselfe engaged in so stuprous a necessitie, [he] 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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