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virginal

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adjective

vir·​gin·​al ˈvər-jə-nᵊl How to pronounce virginal (audio)
ˈvərj-nəl
1
: of, relating to, or characteristic of a virgin or virginity
especially : pure, chaste
a virginal young girl
2
: pristine, unsullied
a virginal snowfall
virginally adverb

virginal

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noun

: a small rectangular spinet having no legs and only one wire to a note and popular in the 16th and 17th centuries
often used in plural

called also pair of virginals

virginalist
ˈvər-jə-nᵊl-ist How to pronounce virginal (audio)
ˈvərj-nə-list
noun

Example Sentences

Adjective The land is still in its virginal state. one of the state's few remaining tracts of virginal prairie
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
Historically, clinicians have defended medical involvement as a means of protecting women against violence if their virginal status is in question. Neda Taghinejadi, Wired, 13 Feb. 2022 Men are gang members, and women are either virginal or spitfires. Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021 And because the queen, who had endured omnipresent chaperonage by her mother, was presumed to be virginal, the color came to be considered symbolic of bodily purity. Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021 This became a clear trend and message over the course of a decade, fueled by pop culture stars: young women and girls needed to stay virginal to succeed. Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 8 Nov. 2021 Gus, one of the liberated enslaved, in the uniform of the Union Army, loiters outside the house of the virginal southern belle Flora and follows her to the woods. Colin Grant, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020 That went double for the moon, whose virginal glow is nicely sanitizing in this context. James Marcus, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021 From there one, the idea of pure evil and the most ubiquitous representation of good, a virginal babysitter, a young girl with dreams of romance and goodness in her heart. Jenelle Riley, Variety, 28 Aug. 2021 The character, in Zegler’s view, shouldn’t be so virginal and pure and, well, flat and one-note. Hunter Harris, Town & Country, 25 Aug. 2021
Noun
Many of the clinics that provide hymenoplasty also offer virginity testing, an examination of the genitalia that claims to determine the virginal (or otherwise) status of a woman. Neda Taghinejadi, Wired, 13 Feb. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

probably from Latin virginalis of a virgin, from virgin-, virgo

First Known Use

Adjective

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

1530, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of virginal was in the 15th century

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