stuprous

English

From Latin stuprōsus, from stuprum.

stuprous (comparative more stuprous, superlative most stuprous)

(rare) Filthy, dirty; debauched.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 33, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  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.

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