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Virgin   /vˈərdʒɪn/   Listen
Virgin

noun
1.
A person who has never had sex.
2.
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo.  Synonym: Virgo.
3.
The sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22.  Synonyms: Virgo, Virgo the Virgin.
adjective
1.
Being used or worked for the first time.
2.
In a state of sexual virginity.  Synonyms: pure, vestal, virginal, virtuous.  "A spinster or virgin lady" , "Men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"



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"Virgin" Quotes from Famous Books



... an you, I pray the Virgin Mary and the twelve apostles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, not forgettin' ...
— Stories of Comedy • Various
... says. But we are therein instructed by Him who came from God, by Him who made them, by Him who preserves them, that is, by the Emperor of the Universe, who is Christ the Son of the Supreme God, and the Son of the Virgin Mary, a woman truly, and the daughter of Joseph and Anna—very Man, who was slain by us in order that He might bring us Life; who was the Light which enlightens us in the Darkness, even as John the ...
— The Banquet (Il Convito) • Dante Alighieri
... numerous chickens. A rough corral and windmill completed the arrangements. Near the house was usually a small patch of alfalfa. Farther out the owner was engaged in the strenuous occupation of brushing and breaking a virgin country. ...
— The Killer • Stewart Edward White
... great swiftness to the ocean, and was seen no more. Yet it was witnessed in the floods of aftertime, that at the coming on of eventide, Ogg the son of Beorl was always seen with his boat upon the wide-spreading waters, and the Blessed Virgin sat in the prow, shedding a light around as of the moon in its brightness, so that the rowers in the gathering darkness took heart and ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... all this was a veil of dark gauze at the horizon-line, its foil a golden, virgin moon, dangling a single ...
— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore


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