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The condition or quality of being a virgin
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virginity
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB lose ▪ I am 26 and have just lost my virginity after a year-long relationship. ▪ She said she wanted to lose her virginity and she picked me. ▪ Not that she wanted to lose her virginity - nothing as drastic as that! ...
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Virginity is the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. Virginity may also refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Virginity \Vir*gin"i*ty\, n. [OE. virgintee, F. virginit['e], L. virginitas.] The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood. The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the condition or quality of being a virgin
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being a virgin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Anglo-French and Old French virginite "(state of) virginity; innocence" (10c. in Old French), from Latin virginitatem (nominative virginitas ) "maidenhood, virginity," from virgo (see virgin ).\n\n Distraught pretty girl: "I've lost my virginity!"\n ...
Usage examples of virginity.
But I told her of how Astel had taken not only my virginity, but whatever rudimentary ability I might have had to trust anyone.
I told her, before bidding her adieu, that, her virginity being no longer necessary for my magic operations, I advised her to get married as soon as possible, if I did not return within three months.
I was for the first time in my life reduced to a state of apathy, and in consequence of the superstitious ideas which had crowded in my mind the previous night I imagined that the innocence of that young girl was under the special protection of Heaven, and that if I had dared to rob her of her virginity the most rapid and terrible death would have been my punishment.
All these pleasures finished, when night aproched Psyches went to bed, and when she was layd, that the sweet sleep came upon her, she greatly feared her virginity, because shee was alone.
Brown had in the mean time agreed the terms with this liquorish old goat, which I afterwards understood were to be fifty guineas peremptory for the liberty of attempting me, and a hundred more at the compleat gratification of his desires, in the triumph over my virginity: and as for me, I was to be left entirely at the discretion of his liking and generosity.
I told her at the same time that, the great operation having been performed successfully, her virginity was no longer necessary, and that she was at liberty to marry as soon as she pleased, or whenever a good opportunity offered itself.
But natheless, although he wrote and said, He would that every wight were such as he, All is but counsel to virginity.
There was enough Greek in him for him to consider that the gift of her virginity, her purity, was one of the greatest gifts a woman could give to the man she loved, but his cultural heritage from his British father and schooling mocked and even de plored such archaic feelings.
He was a retired professor of anthropology, and what the Elmores had done in the South Pacific was investigate the sexual customs of some primitive peoples, Manaturuans, who often permitted, or even encouraged, their pubertal boys to lose their virginity to experienced mature females.
Lolita is a seductress and often, in the process, confound the issue of virginity with the question of rape.
The queen suggested that Alfred would enjoy teasing Emma about her lost virginity.
I understood from Swithe that in other tribes, Feybraiha was surrounded by ritual and meant a lot more than just losing your virginity.
If the consequences, to a man, of the slightest descent from virginity were one-tenth as swift and barbarous as the consequences to a young girl in like case, it would take a division of infantry to dredge up a single male flouter of that lex talionis in the whole western world.
But if it was a choice between losing her virginity to Teague or one of the strange Yss men, she knew without question who she wanted to take her.
Sinjin softly murmured, intent on assuaging his desire, exploring the bar-rier of her virginity with a gentle finger.