virginal
adjective
of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a virgin.
virginally
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a word derived from
virginal.
Example Sentences
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It should be issued as a crisp, virginally white stand-alone volume, available in the lobbies of better hotels worldwide.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2011
Grossberg combined suggestions of both in The Diver, 1931, an exceedingly odd image of an empty diving suit, virginally white, standing pathetically within the rushing perspective of a glass-walled Gropius-type factory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strapping Jack Montague—as virginally bashful a youth as ever scuttled galleons for Queen Elizabeth—looms while setting sail with the English fleet to obliterate the Spanish Armada.
From Time Magazine Archive
The brow was virginally placid, the drooping, bitter mouth alone telling the unhappy husband a story he had never before suspected.
From Visionaries by James Huneker
He was still virginally sensitive where Jewdwine was concerned.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
