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==Origin==

==Origin==

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French virgine, from [[Latin]] virgin-, virgo young [[woman]], virgin

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French virgine, from [[Latin]] virgin-, virgo young [[woman]], virgin

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1a : an unmarried [[woman]] [[devoted]] to [[religion]]  

*1a : an unmarried [[woman]] [[devoted]] to [[religion]]  

The loss of virginity may call to [[mind]] the end of [[innocence]], and the beginning of [[sexual]] [[maturity]]. In this [[association]] "virgin" often references the first instance of a potentially extended series of like [[events]]. Just as extra-virgin olive oil is from the first pressing, so a maiden or virgin [[speech]] is an incumbent's first address. The same [[metaphor]], using the synonym maiden, is applied to the first or maiden voyage of a ship. In cricket, a maiden over is an over from which no runs were scored. Maiden castles are those with the reputation of never having been captured.

The loss of virginity may call to [[mind]] the end of [[innocence]], and the beginning of [[sexual]] [[maturity]]. In this [[association]] "virgin" often references the first instance of a potentially extended series of like [[events]]. Just as extra-virgin olive oil is from the first pressing, so a maiden or virgin [[speech]] is an incumbent's first address. The same [[metaphor]], using the synonym maiden, is applied to the first or maiden voyage of a ship. In cricket, a maiden over is an over from which no runs were scored. Maiden castles are those with the reputation of never having been captured.

[[Chastity]] does not imply virginity. Chastity derives from the [[Latin]] castitas, meaning "cleanliness" or "[[purity]]"—and does not necessarily mean the [[renunciation]] of all [[sexual]] relations, but rather the temperate sexual [[behavior]] of legitimately married spouses, for the [[purpose]] of procreation, or the sexual [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Abstinence continence] of the unmarried.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin]

[[Chastity]] does not imply virginity. Chastity derives from the [[Latin]] castitas, meaning "cleanliness" or "[[purity]]"—and does not necessarily mean the [[renunciation]] of all [[sexual]] relations, but rather the temperate sexual [[behavior]] of legitimately married spouses, for the [[purpose]] of procreation, or the sexual [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Abstinence continence] of the unmarried.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin]

[[Category: Sociology]]

[[Category: Sociology]]