mastupration
/mastuːˈpɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
mastupration means masturbation.
mastupration is pronounced /mastuːˈpɹeɪʃ(ə)n/.
Etymology
An alternate form of masturbation, apparently to resemble or provide overtones of Latin manus (“hand”) + stupro (“defile”). Some theorists disagree, saying that this is the original word and that masturbate is the derivative.
noun
- Masturbation.“it troubles me to think of, much more to relate, those frequent aborts and murdering of infants in their nunneries […], those rapes, incests, adulteries, mastuprations, sodomies, buggeries of monks and friars.”