revirgination
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From revirginate + -ion.
Noun
[edit]revirgination (countable and uncountable, plural revirginations)
- The restoration of virginity.
- 1996, Winifred Bryan Horner, Life Writing, →ISBN, page 241:
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 2012, Janet Adelman, Suffocating Mothers, →ISBN:
- For their sexual bodies will always be dangerous, the sign of the fall and original sin, the "disease that's in my flesh"(King Lear, 2.3.224), "the imposition.../Hereditary ours" (The Winter's Tale, 1.2.74-75): as they enter into sexuality, the virgins -- Cressida, Desdemona, Imogen -- will be transformed into whores, their whoredom acted out in the imaginations of their nearest and dearest; and the primary antidote to their power will be the excision of their sexual bodies, the terrible revirginations that Othello performs on Desdemona, and Shakespeare on Cordelia.
- 2017, Marie-Claire Foblets, Michele Graziadei, Alison Dundes Renteln, Personal Autonomy in Plural Societies: A Principle and its Paradoxes, →ISBN:
- Alison Dundes Renteln's chapter (Chapter 14) shows how women seeking hymenoplasty (revirgination surgery) are sometimes met with resistance from their own physicians.