Revirgination
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Revirgination is a noun meaning The restoration of virginity.
Meaning
The restoration of virginity.
Example Sentences
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.
Alison Dundes Renteln's chapter (Chapter 14) shows how women seeking hymenoplasty (revirgination surgery) are sometimes met with resistance from their own physicians.
Steinem had, on arriving in India, "revirginated" herself, as she would later put it. Her practice of revirgination in India — that is, of allowing the assumption that she was a virgin — had to do both with the protection virginity offered and with the Toledo knowledge that once a woman "lost" her virginity .
Word Forms
- revirginations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include devirginization, repristination, reversion, reviving, reviviscence, revivication.
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