virginal² /vûrˈji-nəl/

(often in pl; also pair of virginals) an old keyboard instrument like a small single-manual harpsichord

To finger, as on a virginal

virgin /vûrˈjin/

1. A person (esp a woman) who has had no sexual intercourse
2. A person who has no previous experience of a specified thing (facetious)
3. A member of a religious order of women who have undertaken to remain virgins
4. A maiden
5. (usu with cap) a Madonna, a figure of the Virgin
6. (with cap and the) Virgo

1. In a state of virginity
2. Of a virgin
3. Maidenly
4. Pure
5. Chaste
6. Undefiled
7. In the original condition, unattained, untouched, unexploited, never scaled, felled, captured, wrought, used, etc
8. Never having previously undergone or been affected by the thing mentioned
9. (of esp olive oil) obtained at the first pressing
10. (of silver, etc) mined in a pure, unmixed state

To continue chaste

virˈginal adjective

1. Of or appropriate to a virgin or virginity
2. In a state of virginity
3. Like a virgin
4. Parthenogenetic

virˈginally adverb

virˈginhood or virginˈity noun

The state or fact of being a virgin

virˈginly adjective

Pure

Chastely

virgin birth or virgin generation noun

Parthenogenesis

Virgin Birth noun (theology)

(the doctrine of) the birth of Christ, His mother being a virgin

virgˈin-born adjective

Born of a virgin

virgin gold noun

Gold in the condition in which it is found

virgin knot noun

The fastening of a Greek or Roman woman's girdle, loosed at marriage

virgin neutron noun

A neutron which has not yet experienced a collision and therefore retains its energy at birth

virˈgin's-bowˈer noun

Traveller's-joy (Clematis vitalba)

virgin soil noun

1. Soil never previously tilled or cultivated
2. Material as yet untried or unaffected

the Blessed Virgin or the Virgin

Mary the mother of Christ

the Virgin Queen

Elizabeth I of England

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