virginal
adjective
of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a virgin.
virginally
-
a word derived from
virginal.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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
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
A very gracious figure of a girl was embracing the grim Miss Churchill, as a gracious girl should virginally salute a grim veteran.
From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
It seemed to Billy that he had never seen in any face so virginally young such a tragic seriousness, nor in any eyes, superficially so calm, such a troubled wonder.
From Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gillmore
