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Virgin   /vˈərdʒɪn/   Listen
noun
Virgin  n.  
1.
A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
2.
A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. (Archaic) "These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins." "He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he said."
3.
(Astron.) See Virgo.
4.
(Zool.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
5.
(Zool.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
The Virgin, or The Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ.
Virgin's bower (Bot.), a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as Clematis Vitalba of Europe, and Clematis Virginiana of North America.


adjective
Virgin  adj.  
1.
Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush. "Virgin shame." "Innocence and virgin modesty... That would be wooed, and unsought be won."
2.
Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold. "Virgin Dutch." "The white cold virgin snow upon my heart." "A few ounces of mutton, with a little virgin oil."
3.
Not yet pregnant; impregnant.


verb
Virgin  v. i.  To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; followed by it. See It, 5. (Obs.) "My true lip hath virgined it e'er since (that kiss)."





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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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