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mastupration en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /mastuːˈpɹeɪʃ(ə)n/

Etymology

An alternate form of masturbation, apparently to resemble or provide overtones of Latin manus (“hand”) + stupro (“defile”). Compare manustupration.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Masturbation.
   • She had caught him at the age of twelve in the act of mastupration. Unseemly, unroman, Greekish, Jewish. Well, in a sense he had done nothing but mastuprate since taking the purple. 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
   • it troubles me to think of, much more to relate, those frequent aborts and murdering of infants in their nunneries […], those rapes, incests, adulteries, mastuprations, sodomies, buggeries of monks and friars. , I.iii.2.4

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mastuprate