devirginate

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/diːˈvɜː(ɹ)dʒɪneɪt//diːˈvɜː(ɹ)dʒɪnət/

verb

To deprive of virginity; to deflower.

OriginLatin dēvirginātus →
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Meanings

devirginate1

verbdevirginate (third-person singular simple present devirginates, present participle devirginating, simple past and past participle devirginated)

present singular third person devirginates · participle present devirginating · participle past devirginated · past devirginated

  1. obsoleteTo deprive of virginity; to deflower.

    The Troians retire to their walls, and the Grecians to their Camp, when Achilles at a feſtivall relates the wonderfull story of Cygnus; which is paralell'd by Neſtor with another of Ceneus, once a maid, then called Cænis and devirginated by Neptune […]

    1621-1626, George Sandys, Upon the twelfth book of Ovid's Metamorphosis, in Metamorphosis (Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses)
    1 more example

    a profligate Christian attempted to devirginate a Maid, but the Mother being present, resisted him, and endeavouring to free her from his intended Rape, whereat the Spaniard enrag'd, cut off her Hand with a short Sword, and stab'd the Virgin in several places, till she Expir'd

    1552, Bartolomé de las Casas, “Chapter 11”, in A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

devirginate2

adjectivedevirginate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleterareDeprived of virginity.

    Fair Hero, left devirginate, Weighs and with fury wails her state: But with her love and woman wit She argues, and approveth it.

    1598, George Chapman, “Third Sestyad”, in Christopher Marlow[e], George Chapman, edited by S[amuel] W[eller] Singer, Hero and Leander. A Poem. […] (Select Early English Poets; VIII), Chiswick, London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […], published 1606 (republished 1821), →OCLC, page 44

Origin

devirginate · verb

  1. Latindēvirginātus
  2. Englishdevirginate

First attested in 1583; borrowed from Latin dēvirginātus, perfect passive participle of dēvirginō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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devirginate · adjective

  1. Latindēvirginātus
  2. Middle Englishdevirginat(e)
  3. Englishdevirginate

First attested in c. 1470, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English devirginat(e), borrowed from Latin dēvirginātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

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Chicago

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