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pederosis en · NOUN

Etymology

From pedo- (“child”) + eros (“love”) + -osis (“disease, condition”).

Meanings

1. (rare, uncountable) sexual impulse directed towards children; paedophilia
   • I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and how to do it, without impinging on a child's chastity; after all, I had had some experience in my life of pederosis; had visually possessed dappled nymphets in parks; had wedged my wary and bestial way into the hottest, most crowded corner of a city bus full of strap-hanging school children. 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

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