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From the oblique stem of Latin coitiō.

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coition (usually uncountable, plural coitions)

  1. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], 2nd edition, London: [] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, [], →OCLC:
      their coition is made by supersaliency, like that of horses, as we are informed by some who have beheld them in that act
    • 1907, Byron Robinson, The Abdominal and Pelvic Brain with Automatic Visceral Ganglia, page 233:
      A mare put to a stallion fell dead at the end of coition.
    • 1961, D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious:
      Sex without the consummating act of coition is never quite sex, in human relationships: just as a eunuch is never quite a man.

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