indevirginate

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English

Etymology

From in- +‎ devirginate.

Adjective

indevirginate (comparative more indevirginate, superlative most indevirginate)

(obsolete, rare) virgin; virginal.
- c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise , published 1624:
  Pallas, the Seed of Ægis-bearing Jove,
  Who still lives indevirginate, her eyes
  Being blue, and sparkling like the freezing skies.

References

“indevirginate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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