'The Blessed Virgin' definitions:

Definition of 'The Blessed Virgin'

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  • Virgin \Vir"gin\, n. [L. virgo, -inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene, virge, vierge, F. vierge.]
  • 1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic] --Wyclif. [1913 Webster]
  • These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. --Rev. xiv. 4. [1913 Webster]
  • He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he said. --Gower. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Astron.) See Virgo. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Zool.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Zool.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect. [1913 Webster]
  • The Virgin, or The Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ.
  • Virgin's bower (Bot.), a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as Clematis Vitalba of Europe, and Clematis Virginiana of North America. [1913 Webster]

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