virgin

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Jasira as a virgin is also forbidden to use Tampons.

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  1. noun A person who has not experienced sexual intercourse.
  2. noun A chaste or unmarried woman; a maiden.
  3. noun An unmarried woman who has taken religious vows of chastity.

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  • I understood as I had never done before the inborn affection felt by every human being for the virgin, the fresh, the untouched, the not quite full-blown, just as it is about to pass over into its maturity. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • That she was still a virgin was a secret she'd kept very much to herself, for she had moved in circles where casual sex was considered the norm. —  CRISTIANO ANDREOTTI, the software billionaire, stood on the topmost deck of the megayacht Lestara
  • They are called the “foolish virgins.” We all know that a virgin is an unmarried woman who has kept the integrity of her virtue unbroken. —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary
  • Jasira as a virgin is also forbidden to use Tampons. —  NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories
  • And it doesn't reduce a pubescent, non-virgin female's status-she's already not a virgin, which is the only status boost she could possibly stack onto her pre-existing undeniable femaleness, and once that's gone, she has no more to lose. —  PunkAssBlog.com
 

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maiden ·  thy ·  holy ·  heavenly ·  innocent ·  lonely ·  pale ·  youthful ·  chaste

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virgin:   virgins ·  Virgin
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French virgine, from Latin virgō, virgin-.

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  1. from virgin, n.
 

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/ˈvərdʒɪn/
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