born-again virgin

noun

A person who refrains from sexual activity, regardless of any past unchaste behavior.

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Meanings

nounborn-again virgin (plural born-again virgins)

plural born-again virgins

  1. A person who refrains from sexual activity, regardless of any past unchaste behavior.

    “I’m a born-again virgin.” Well, at least I got a good laugh out of him. “That’s great. Is that like a born-again Jew? Or born-again Jesus freak?”

    1981, Amy Schor, Line by Line, →ISBN, page 49
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    Religiously motivated women like Watts believe it’s very possible to become a born-again virgin — if you believe it is so and pledge abstinence until marriage.

    2013, Brian Alexander, “Born-again virgins claim to rewrite the past”, in NBCNews.com
  2. A woman who undergoes a hymenorrhaphy to restore her hymen.
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Chicago

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