Meaning of revirginate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To become a virgin again.
   transitive
2. To restore to virginity; to make into a virgin again.
   intransitive
3. To restore to an inexperienced state.
   broadly
4. To restore to a pristine state; to rejuvenate.
5. To make a fresh start.

Examples

“Media expose/s that hail virginity as a trend; advice books that characterize it as an asset and a tool; women who "revirginate"; plastic surgeons who reconstruct hymens— virginity in such instances does at least as much to revise, resist, and evade statements about patriarchal power as it does to confirm them.”

“The time it takes for revirgination to occur varies from woman to woman. Some might revirginate in a matter of weeks, while for others it might take months.”

“She told me it really was true that you “use it or lose it,” and that in essence, I had “revirginated,” in terms of being too tight for a penis to make it in comfortably.”

“The sensational London Pall Mall Gazette scandal in the eighteen-nineties brought facts to light which prove that, in civilised England, the mania for defloration led to a veritable cult, and that the demand for virgins could only be satisfied by girls being artificially revirginated three, four, or five times.”

“In the much-plagiarized A Manifest Detection of the most vile and detestable use of Dice-play [1552] the probable author, Gilbert Walker, recounts this anecdote of an old bawd who attempts to "revirginate" one of her girls to trick a gull who insists upon bedding only virgins: "This Mother Bawd undertook to serve his turn according to his desire, and having at home a well-painted, mannerly harlot, as good a maid as Fletcher's mare, that bare three great foals, went in the morning to the apothecary's for half a pint of sweet water, that commonly is called surfling water, or clinker-device, and on the way homeward turned into a nobleman's house to visit his cook, and old acquaintance of hers.”

“Wow. Do we qualify as virgins or not? No. It takes seven years to be revirginated.”

“While the poor fool didn't get his money back, he was about to marry one of the wayward women he had tried to revirginate.”

“According to this logic, the pardons Balteira gained on her pilgrimage should have revirginated her, and would have if she had an 'iron box', or a firm dedication to her Christian faith, with which to guard her chastity.””

“You can't really revirginate yourself just by finishing the list.”

“It's necessary for Congresspersons to revirginate themselves each election year.”

“In his opera, Britten, by telling what we've always heard without listening, revirginates our ears.”

“Get up the paint to revirginate the ship before the ice thrusts growling towards the prow by Malice Point.”

“Thus Hera retires to her yearly rejuvenating, revirginating bath.”

“O sea, a fresh beginning at every moment . . . You, O sea, unwearyingly renewed . . . You who revirginate in every wavelet . . .”

“Feelings whose flush never revirginates!”

“...as the moon is renewed monthly, so Alatiel "revirginates" at the end of the story, thus annihilating the experience of long wanderings and countless coitions.”

“The idea of starting over, sometimes called “secondary virginity” or “revirginating,” is catching on with thousands of teens and thousands of families.”

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