stuprous
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin stuprōsus, from stuprum.
Adjective
[edit]stuprous (comparative more stuprous, superlative most stuprous)
- (rare) Filthy, dirty; debauched.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 33, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- seeing himselfe engaged in so stuprous a necessitie, [he] resolved upon an haughty enterprize […].
- 2008, trans. Georges Eekhoud, A Strange Love, Olympia Press, 2008:
- With the cry of a tigress bending over her cub, he disengaged Guidon, who lay there unconscious, bruised, his clothes in rags and stained with stuprous filth; kissed him and raised him in his arms.
Etymology 2
[edit]Variant forms.
Adjective
[edit]stuprous
- Alternative form of stuporous