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manustupration en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin manus (“hand”) + stuprō (“debauch”). The verb is often wrongly quoted as stupō, stupare.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Synonym of masturbation.
    • The vice consists in any excitement of the genital organs produced otherwise than in the natural way. It is known by the terms, self-pollution, self-abuse, masturbation, onanism, manustupration, voluntary pollution, solitary or secret vice, and other names sufficiently explanatory. [1881, John Harvey Kellogg, Plain Facts for Old and Young:

Synonyms

masturbation