virgin
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English virgine, from Old French virgine, from Latin virginem, accusative of virgō. Doublet of Virgo. Displaced native Old English fǣmne.
Inflected forms:
form: virgins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more virgin
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most virgin
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.
pos: noun
examples: On the other hand, the daughter of a clergyman repeatedly performed fellatio instead of genital intercourse so that she could remain a virgin.
Could I convert virgins to nymphomania? Masturbators to rakehood? Faithful wives to adulteresses? Seducers to ascetics? Very doubtful. But possible.
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.
among students we studied , 60 % of the virgin females had had oral sex experience
A girl is a virgin until she experience penis-inside-vagina intercourse
26 percent of virgin females have performed fellatio while 87 percent of nonvirgins have done so .
I was a virgin. In my senior year of high school, I had experienced one inchoate handjob
adolescents often define themselves as still a virgin while experimenting with oral sex
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
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.
A Pike High School teen says most teens “think if you have oral sex you are still a virgin.
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
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.
gloss: A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: In its list of saints, the Catholic Church classifies St. Agnes, St. Maria Goretti, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux as virgins.
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.
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 […]
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 […].
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 […]
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).
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.
gloss: One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I've never eaten tofu before—you could say I'm a tofu virgin.
gloss: Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
pos: noun
gloss: A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
pos: noun
gloss: A dedicated fan of "virgincore" bands, e.g., Car Seat Headrest, Radiohead, and Weezer.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A person who plays certain video games that are popularly believed to appeal to virgins, e.g., League of Legends, Paradox Interactive grand strategy games, and World of Warcraft.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: A Redditor.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: A person who wears certain items of clothing that are popularly considered to be unfashionable, e.g., Crocs and fedoras.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Innocence and virgin Modestie […] / That would be woo’d, and not unsought be won
He was now about twenty-three years old, and, though still virgin, the sex instinct that Miriam had over refined for so long now grew particularly strong.
From their embraces was born the handsome Actaeon, a naive boy, who had less excuse than other men, given that he was her son, for believing her to be a virgin. It's true that he was even more virgin than his mother.
Helvidius […] took the plain meaning of scripture to say that Jesus patently had brothers and sisters, so therefore his mother, Mary, had enjoyed a normal family life rather than remaining perpetually virgin.
gloss: Of a physical object, untouched.
pos: adj
examples: The white cold virgin snow upon my heart / Abates the ardour of my liver.
There is something about virgin sand which arouses all the worst instincts of the detective-story writer. One feels an irresisitible impulse to go and make footprints all over it.
gloss: Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations.
pos: adj
examples: virgin prairie
virgin ecosystem
virgin forest
virgin clay
The virgin lands of the Americas were awaiting the Europeans.
The same bounty of Summer, the same milde remission of Winter, with a more virgin and unexhausted soyle being materiall arguments to shew that modesty and truth receive no diminution by the comparison.
For today’s owners of surveillance capital the experiential realities of bodies, thoughts and feelings are as virgin and blameless as nature’s once-plentiful meadows, rivers, oceans and forests before they fell to the market dynamic.
gloss: Inexperienced.
pos: adj
examples: The woman shook dangerously, an obvious virgin gunhandler.
gloss: Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
pos: adj
examples: Wondering how some oil is somehow more virgin than regular virgin olive oil can be a real head-scratcher.
gloss: Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: a virgin daiquiri
Synonyms: maid
unicorn bait
virgin
Antonyms: copulator
libertine
Related words: celibate
virginal
Derived words: born-again virgin
extra virgin
extra-virgin
Fulham virgin
German virgin
half-virgin
skin virgin
sworn virgin
vestal virgin
virginal
virgin birth
virgin-born
virgin cocktail
virgin field
virgin forest
virgin honey
Virgin Islands
virginity
Virgin Mary
virgin of the sun
virgin oil
virgin olive oil
virgin parchment
virgin soil
virgin soil epidemic
virgin sulfur
virgin sulphur
virgin territory
virgin timber
virgin vault
virgin wool
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