Blessed Virgin

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noun

the Virgin Mary.

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How to use Blessed Virgin in a sentence

They are impressive animals, solitary hunters blessed with incredible power and athleticism.
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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
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The virgin birth is mentioned in the...what...gasp...Koran?!
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All Cohen needed to do was add “of blessed memory” after each political casualty was mentioned.
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And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the Virgin Mary in one fresco.
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The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”
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The Father had been in sore straits of mind, as month after month had passed without tidings of his "blessed child."
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
My schooling was shocking but, as a blessed compensation, my college stage was rather exceptionally good.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I was thinking of any thing but the Virgin, or the window, or the light; I was thinking of my companion—so fair, and so devout.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
She fixed her imploring eyes on the Virgin's face and on the saints; but all seemed to her to wear a forbidding look.
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British Dictionary definitions for Blessed Virgin

Blessed Virgin

noun

mainly RC Church another name for Mary 2 (def. 1a)

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