deflower

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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 Rudd, John

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 Meredith, Owen