indevirginate
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.