Virginal

Word VIRGINAL
Character 8
Hyphenation vir gin al
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Virginal"

What do we mean by virginal?

A musical instrument in the harpsichord family.

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The word "virginal" in example sentences

Nay, I am no cold-blooded theorist, no thick-hided dogmatist; nor am I a chastely simple young man mooning in virginal innocence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If we treat the word virginal as meaning purity, then the birth of her gifted son (sun) was due to her positive nature: she was pure at heart, as the fields were pure to plant upon. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You see, geek girls are such a rarity that few of them remain virginal - the choices are so many ... ❋ Reynardo (2001)

The everlasting snow which looks so virginal, is in fact distinctly grimy when you get close to it. ❋ Unknown (1947)

The so-called virginal reproduction (Parthenogenesis) offers an interesting form of transition from sexual reproduction to the non-sexual formation of germ-cells which most resembles it .... ❋ W. Scott-Elliot (N/A)

The profane love of woman presented itself to my fancy, clothed, not only with all its own charms, but with the sovereign and almost irresistible charms of the most dangerous of all temptation—of that which the moralists call virginal temptation—when the mind, not yet undeceived by experience and by sin, pictures to itself in the transports of love a supreme and ineffable delight immeasurable superior to all reality. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Finally, no Shakespeare student will deny that some general help is necessary, when Schmidt's admirable Lexicon commits itself to such a misleading statement as that a virginal is a kind of small pianoforte, and when a very distinguished Shakespeare scholar has allowed a definition of a viol as a six-stringed guitar to appear in print under his name. ❋ Unknown (1900)

When the spinet was of very small dimensions it was called a virginal; when it was in the shape of our modern grand piano, it was, of course, ❋ Edward MacDowell (1884)

The ex-wife turned up, alone, in an outfit best described as virginal white (the bride, on her second marriage was obviously not in white). ❋ Unknown (2010)

But even my 87-year-old grandfather with a Star magazine penchant realizes that Britney — 29, divorcee, rehab-tress and mother of two — is no longer Disney's trillion-dollar creation of a meticulous squeaky-clean, "virginal" pop princess with superhero abs and the most desirable pop star BF in the universe. ❋ Alex Catarinella (2011)

The sexual element of lesbian existence is overemphasized, because we wouldn't focus on whether nuns had sex with their male priest colleagues, we would take it that you can be "virginal" in the heterosexual sense of the word, but lesbian in attachment to women. ❋ Tenured Radical (2009)

Regardless of political party, when are our country's leaders going to get that numerous studies have found abstinence-only programs not only a waste of our taxpayer dollars, but moot in their efforts -- to keep us "virginal"'til our wedding nights? ❋ Unknown (2008)

I agree he does, he has affection for them at the very least, but I found that this film was very strange when it comes to its sexual politics: most of QT's sympathy seems to go to the "virginal" girls Butterfly and Abby, who both explicitly talk about NOT sleeping with guys. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When and how did Miss Spears turn from a gal who can't really sing, but she's kinda cute and straight guys get off on her "virginal" jailbait quality into Mrs. Federline, the embodiment of white trash, with a deadbeat husband, a corpse-like career, and a baby you wish protective services had taken away just to save poor Sean from his inevitable teenaged drug and alcohol fueled downward spiral? ❋ Unknown (2006)

I think the first outfit for the civil ceremony was -- she had to tread a really careful line between not looking too much like the mother of the bride, which was a risk considering, you know, she's a lady of 57, but not wanting to look too sort of kind of virginal and you know, sort of wearing anything that could sort of look too young. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I think the first outfit for the civil ceremony was -- she had to tread a really careful line between not looking too much like the mother of the bride, which was a risk, considering that she's a lady of 57, but not wanting to look too sort of kind of virginal or wearing anything that could sort of look too young. ❋ Unknown (2005)

There are many stories -- most originating in the Victorian period -- about the "virginal" mind of an angelic Shelley and how he could not abide coarse speech and impure stories. ❋ Unknown (1997)

And it has been, still according to O'Connor, Gogarty who, characterizing Joyce as a "virginal" (!) visitor of brothels, wrote this famous limerick: ❋ Tamboer, Kees (1994)

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