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单词 revirginize
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revirginizev.

Brit. /riːˈvəːdʒᵻnʌɪz/, /riːˈvəːdʒn̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌriˈvərdʒᵻnˌaɪz/
Forms: 1800s– revirginize, 1900s– revirginise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, virgin n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < re- prefix + virgin n. + -ize suffix.
transitive. To render virginal again; to purify or renew. Now chiefly: to restore the status of virgin to (a person, usually a woman). Frequently in passive.
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society > morality > virtue > purity > make pure [verb (transitive)]
cleansec897
shire?c1225
clengea1300
purge1340
purec1350
purifya1393
whitena1400
sprinkle1526
refine1594
simplify1609
sublime1613
purgate1795
revirginize1852
bleach1868
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > to flourishing condition
recovera1425
recreatec1425
renewc1450
revivea1500
resuscitate1532
refresh1533
retrieve1652
revirginize1852
revigorate1886
1852 ‘Nightlark’ Meanderings of Memory I. 75 Where that cosmetic..Shall e'er revirginize that brow's abuse.
1922 Theosophist June 250 The masses advance and shall bring new clay and re-virginise the exhausted soil of humanity.
1962 E. Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf i. 78 A kind of junior Lady Chatterley arrangement... But Daddy and Miss Muff got together and put an end to that... So I was revirginized.
1988 E. J. Burford Royal St. James's xii. 221 Most were girls whose deflowering had been rectified by artifice—some of her best girls had been re-virginized many times.
1999 J. Mitchell What the Hell is Groom? iv. 106 Some couples try to be cute and ‘abstain’, to revirginize themselves by not having sex for a month before the wedding.
2008 Toronto Star (Nexis) 12 July i. 1 He has won international acclaim for refining the hymenoplasty procedure... He still fields regular requests to revirginize women around the world.

Derivatives

ˌrevirginiˈzation n. [in quot. 1951, after German Revirgination (1950 in the passage translated)]
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1951 C. Fitzgibbon tr. M. Sperber Burned Bramble 345 You don't believe in L.D.'s [i.e. Trotsky]—what was your word?—ah, revirginization [Ger. Revirgination]. So what have you been waiting for? The old dialectical switch? When the whore's been in the cathouse long enough she'll become a virgin.
2007 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Mar. (Final ed.) f1 A Bayonne, N.J., gynecologist..says the ‘revirginization’ operation has become increasingly popular as a gift for men.
ˌre-ˈvirginized adj.
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1858 Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star 20 436/2 Those springs which shall survive [the winter] will take deep root in the re-virginized soil, shoot out new branches,..and put forth crowds of human buds again.
2008 O. Holmes Dante's Two Beloveds 4 The poet identifies with the male partner in the sexual relationship who..eventually recovers his lost beloved as re-virginized bride.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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