deflower

Individual inspiration was a sacred thing, which reality with its rules and prejudices could only spoil and deflower.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd

In the budding of youth, ere wild winds can deflower The shut leaves of man's life, round the germ of his power Yet folded, his life had been earnest.

From Lucile by Owen Meredith

Or— Defames the sunlight and deflowers the morn.

From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker

A rose of last October is a poor deflowered thing; but turn to the ice-bound garden-walks where, a month before, the chrysanthemum stood in autumn splendor.

From The Land of Long Ago by Eliza Calvert Hall

How art thou lost! how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote!

From Paradise Lost by John Milton

How mistaken and roundabout have been our efforts to reach it by mystic passion, and monastic reverie; how they have deflowered the flesh; how little they have emancipated us!

From The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

They found a great deal of entertainment at the hotel, an enormous wooden structure, for the erection of which it seemed to them that the virgin forests of the West must have been terribly deflowered.

From An International Episode by Henry James

How mistaken and roundabout have been our efforts to reach it by mystic passion, and monastic reverie; how they have deflowered the flesh; how little have they really emancipated us!

From The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry by Walter Pater

He wrote his mother: "I feel my own life all the more precious and dear in the presence of this deflowering of Europe."

From Time Magazine Archive

More than one wife, she reminded herself, and more than one deflowering, because according to Tilia, the Tartars took several wives, as the Muslims did.

From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Robert Shea