revirginate

English

Etymology

re- +‎ virgin +‎ -ate

Verb

revirginate (third-person singular simple present revirginates, present participle revirginating, simple past and past participle revirginated)

1. To become a virgin again.
   • 2002, Differences - Volume 13, Issue 2, page 11:

     Media expose/s that hail virginity as a trend; advice books that characterize it as an asset and a tool; women who "revirginate"; plastic surgeons who reconstruct hymens— virginity in such instances does at least as much to revise, resist, and evade statements about patriarchal power as it does to confirm them.

   • 2004, Jill Conner Browne, God Save the Sweet Potato Queens, →ISBN, page 158:

     The time it takes for revirgination to occur varies from woman to woman. Some might revirginate in a matter of weeks, while for others it might take months.

   • 2011, Joan Price, Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex, →ISBN:

     She told me it really was true that you “use it or lose it,” and that in essence, I had “revirginated,” in terms of being too tight for a penis to make it in comfortably.

2. To restore to virginity; to make into a virgin again.
   • 1927, Bernhard Adam Bauer, Woman, a Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology and Sexual Life of Woman:

     The sensational London Pall Mall Gazette scandal in the eighteen-nineties brought facts to light which prove that, in civilised England, the mania for defloration led to a veritable cult, and that the demand for virgins could only be satisfied by girls being artificially revirginated three, four, or five times.

   • 1988, James T. Henke, Gutter Life and Language in the Early "street" Literature of England, page 57:

     In the much-plagiarized A Manifest Detection of the most vile and detestable use of Dice-play [1552] the probable author, Gilbert Walker, recounts this anecdote of an old bawd who attempts to "revirginate" one of her girls to trick a gull who who insists upon bedding only virgins: "This Mother Bawd undertook to serve his turn according to his desire, and having at home a well-painted, mannerly harlot, as good a maid as Fletcher's mare, that bare three great foals, went in the morning to the apothecary's for half a pint of sweet water, that commonly is called surfling water, or clinker-device, and on the way homeward turned into a nobleman's house to visit his cook, and old acquaintance of hers.

   • 1993, Fanny Howe, Saving History, page 32:

     Wow. Do we qualify as virgins or not? No. It takes seven years to be revirginated.

   • 1997, Melodie Chenevert, What Next Nurse?: The Career Planner for Panic Stricken Nurses, →ISBN:

     While the poor fool didn't get his money back, he was about to marry one of the wayward women he had tried to revirginate.

   • 1997, Denise Keyes Filios, Women Out of Bounds:

     According to this logic, the pardons Balteira gained on her pilgrimage should have revirginated her, and would have if she had an 'iron box', or a firm dedication to her Christian faith, with which to guard her chastity.”

   • 2002, Phoebe McPhee, The Alphabetical Hookup List R-Z, →ISBN, page 214:

     You can't really revirginate yourself just by finishing the list.

3. (by extension) To restore to an inexperienced state.
   • 1985, Jacqueline Briskin, Too much too soon, page 369:

     It's necessary for Congresspersons to revirginate themselves each election year.

   • 2013, Ned Rorem, An Absolute Gift: A New Diary, →ISBN:

     In his opera, Britten, by telling what we've always heard without listening, revirginates our ears.

4. To restore to a pristine state; to rejuvinate.
   • 1938, The Atlantic Monthly - Volume 162, page 634:

     Get up the paint to revirginate the ship before the ice thrusts growling towards the prow by Malice Point.

   • 1981, Sylvia Brinton Perera, Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women, page 55:

     Thus Hera retires to her yearly rejuvenating, revirginating bath.

   • 2000, Gesualdo Bufalino, Tommaso and the Blind Photographer, page 18:

     O sea, a fresh beginning at every moment . . . You, O sea, unwearyingly renewed . . . You who revirginate in every wavelet . . .

5. To make a fresh start.
   • 1930, Thomas Sturge Moore, Mystery and Tragedy: Two Dramatic Poems, page 52:

     Feelings whose flush never revirginates!

   • 1979, Millicent Joy Marcus, An Allegory of Form:

     ...as the moon is renewed monthly, so Alatiel "revirginates" at the end of the story, thus annihilating the experience of long wanderings and countless coitions.

   • 2007, Linda Eyre, Richard Eyre, How to Talk to Your Child About Sex, →ISBN:

     The idea of starting over, sometimes called “secondary virginity” or “revirginating,” is catching on with thousands of teens and thousands of families.