devirginate

verb

• IPA^(key): /diːˈvɜː(ɹ)dʒɪneɪt/

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djective

• IPA^(key): /diːˈvɜː(ɹ)dʒɪnət/

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

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

1. (obsolete) To deprive of virginity; to deflower.
   • 1552, Bartolomé de las Casas, “Chapter 11”, in A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies:

     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

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

     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 […]

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.

devirginate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Deprived of virginity.
   • 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:

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

• denigrative

dēvirgināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēvirginō