Word Meanings - DEFLOUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To deprive of flowers. 2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament. He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him. Jer. Taylor. 3. To deprive of virginity,

Additional info about word: DEFLOUR

1. To deprive of flowers. 2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament. He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him. Jer. Taylor. 3. To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to ravish; also, to seduce.

Related words: (words related to DEFLOUR)

• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• PRIMEVALLY
  In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
• GRACE
  The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. And if by grace, then is it no more of
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• INNOCENTLY
  In an innocent manner.
• RAVISHING
  Rapturous; transporting.
• GRACELESS
  1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton. 2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less-ness, n.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• SWEETNESS
  The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• PRIMEVAL
  Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.
• PRIMEVOUS
  Primeval.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• BEAUTY
  biauté, Pr. beltat, F. beauté, fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. 1. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color
• RAVISH
  1. To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee. Shak. This hand shall ravish thy pretended right. Dryden. 2. To transport with joy or delight; to delight
• RAVISHINGLY
  In a ravishing manner.
• PRIMERO
  A game at cards, now unknown. Shak.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• AGGRACE
  To favor; to grace. "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.
• REPRIMER
  A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.
• SCAPEGRACE
  A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.
• BONGRACE
  A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.
• OVERGRACE
  To grace or honor exceedingly or beyond desert. Beau. & Fl.