virgin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜːd͡ʒɪn/
ipa: /ˈvɝd͡ʒɪn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪn
Forms: form: virgins
Etymology: From Middle English virgine, from Old French virgine, from Latin virginem, accusative of virgō. Doublet of Virgo. Displaced native Old English fǣmne.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, the daughter of a clergyman repeatedly performed fellatio instead of genital intercourse so that she could remain a virgin.
ref: 1970 Marriage in Life and Literature page 169
text: Could I convert virgins to nymphomania? Masturbators to rakehood? Faithful wives to adulteresses? Seducers to ascetics? Very doubtful. But possible.
ref: 1971, George Cockcroft aka Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man:
text: As the years went on she became extraordinarily effective at fellatio but, despite the fact that she was Mrs James Baylor, age 32, she was still a virgin.
ref: 1974, The New Review, Volume 1, Part Page 15:
text: among students we studied , 60 % of the virgin females had had oral sex experience
ref: 1987 Psychology and Personal Growthpage 208
text: A girl is a virgin until she experience penis-inside-vagina intercourse
ref: 1988 page 186
text: 26 percent of virgin females have performed fellatio while 87 percent of nonvirgins have done so .
ref: 1992, Cosmopolitan, volume 212, page 177:
text: I was a virgin. In my senior year of high school, I had experienced one inchoate handjob
ref: 1993 Santa Clara Review page 102
text: adolescents often define themselves as still a virgin while experimenting with oral sex
ref: 2004 The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships page 67
text: middle-school girls sometimes look at oral sex as an absolute bargain - you don't get pregnant, they think you don't get diseases, you're still a virgin and you're in control
ref: 2008, College Student Journal - Volume 42, Issues 1-2 - Page 183:
text: Shepard: Are you telling me you're a virgin?
Liara: "Virgin" does not have the same connotation in my culture as in yours. But is is true I have never done this before.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:
text: A Pike High School teen says most teens “think if you have oral sex you are still a virgin.
ref: 2012 Saying Yes! to Saying No page 21
text: she's never actually told the girls she's still a virgin—that the pinnacle of her sexual experience was giving a pretty cruddy handjob to Jared Wells
ref: 2015 In Some Other World, Maybe: A Novel - Page 28
text: It's really a miracle I'm still a virgin at twenty-one in the first place. I guess my talent at blowjobs and handjobs paid off.
ref: 2020 Page 1139
synonyms: maiden
unicorn bait
virgo intacta
vestal
glosses: A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.
glosses: A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
examples: text: In its list of saints, the Catholic Church classifies St. Agnes, St. Maria Goretti, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux as virgins.
text: This was the relation of the order of virgins to the Church from the latter part of the fourth to the beginning of the seventh century. The modern “sister” had no exact prototype in the Church of the first seven centuries.
ref: 1894, Authorized Report of the Proceedings of the ... Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States ..., page 109:
text: The list of saints' days and festivals includes a number of the Romish holidays, properly so called, viz.: Lucian, priest and martyr, Jan. 8 ; Hilary, bishop and confessor, Jan. 13 ; Prisca, virgin and martyr, Jan. 18 ; Fabian, bishop and martyr, Jan. 20 ; Agnes, virgin and martyr, Jan. 21 […]
ref: 1894, John McClintock, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, page 26:
text: It is evident that those from the priesthood are chiefly taken from the order of virgins, or if not from virgins, at least from monks; or if not from the order of monks, then they are wont to be made priests who keep themselves from their wives […].
ref: 1900, A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: Second Series, page 366:
text: It ought to have become apparent, however, that the well-established order of widows was the model for the newly developing order of virgins. Both orders earned their legitimization from the way of life adopted by their members […]
ref: 1994, Susanna Elm, `Virgins of God' : The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 174:
text: According to Jerome's account, a young man, who desired to seduce a consecrated virgin of the church, at first attempted to do so through the standard means of seduction: namely, “with touching, jokes, nods, whistles, and the rest” (Vit. Hil. 21.2670–75).
ref: 2007, Todd C. Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele, Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses, BRILL, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Grant, O Lord, I beseech thee, that the Virgin and Martyr, St. Philomena, may solicit thy mercy for us. I implore her intercession, through the merits of her chastity, and by the glory that she gave to thy power, in dying for thee.
ref: 2015, Anonymous, Aeterna Press, The Life and Miracles: Saint Philomena, Virgin and Martyr, Aeterna Press:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
qualifier: Orthodoxy or historical
glosses: Someone vowed to virginity (usually a woman and often a consecrated virgin), or someone who died in defense of their virginity; (especially) one venerated as a saint.
examples: text: I've never eaten tofu before—you could say I'm a tofu virgin.
glosses: One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
glosses: Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
Synonyms: word: maid
word: unicorn bait
word: virgin
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: Female virgin
word: maiden
word: pucelle
word: vestal
word: virgo intacta
word: Male virgin
word: cherry boy
word: cherry prick
Related terms: word: celibate
word: virginal