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born-again virgin en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A person who refrains from sexual activity, regardless of any past unchaste behavior.
    • 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:
    • “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:
  2. A woman who undergoes a hymenorrhaphy to restore her hymen.

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