English

Verb

deflowering

1. present participle of deflower

Noun

deflowering ‎(plural deflowerings)

1. The breaking of the hymen of a virgin.
   • 1794 Emanuel Swedenborg - The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love: After which Follow the Pleasures of Insanity

     Some adulterers are impelled by the cupidity of deflowering virgins, and thence also of deflowering young girls in their harmless age.

   • 2005 Muhammad Khalid Masud et al - Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and Their Judgements

     If a midwife testifies that the wound is old, then deflowering may have occurred prior to the husband's initial penetration of his wife.