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unmaiden

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ maiden.

Verb

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unmaiden (third-person singular simple present unmaidens, present participle unmaidening, simple past and past participle unmaidened)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To ravish; to deflower.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unmaiden”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)