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Virgin

noun

A person who has never had sex.

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo. Synonym: Virgo.

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

Being used or worked for the first time.

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

... we are once more in the European Middle ages. Gates and posterns, cranky steps that lead up to lofty, gabled houses, with sharp French roofs of burnished tin, like those of Liege; processions of the Host; altars decked with flowers; statues of the Virgin; sabots, blouses, and the scarlet of the British lines-man,— all these are seen in narrow streets and markets that are graced with many a Cotentin lace cap, and all within forty miles of the down-east, Yankee ...

— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine

... St. Julian to the 4th of March we had little wind, with thick, hazy weather and some rain. On the 4th of March we were in sight of Cape Virgin Mary,* and not more than six or seven leagues distant from it. The afternoon of this day was very bright and clear, with small breezes of wind, inclinable to a calm; and most of the captains took the opportunity of this favourable weather to pay ...

— Anson's Voyage Round the World - The Text Reduced • Richard Walter

... beautiful thing!' observed Jawleyford, pointing to another group. 'I picked that up for a mere nothing—twenty guineas—worth two hundred at least. Lipsalve, the great picture-dealer in Gammon Passage, offered me Murillo's "Adoration of the Virgin and Shepherds," for which he showed me a receipt for a ...

— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... from a shoulder belt was a short, sheathed knife, while a cross belt supported a pouch at its right hip. Confining these straps to the body and also apparently supporting the loin cloth was a broad girdle which glittered in the moonlight as though encrusted with virgin gold, and was clasped in the center of the belly with a huge buckle of ornate design that ...

— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... His Son to be born of the Virgin Mary, to become man, and to walk on this earth as a real man, and to teach men, ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

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