Gabinus, who was martyred with his daughter Susanna because she refused to break her vow of virginity by a marriage with Maximianus Galerus, adopted son of the Emperor Diocletian, to whom this family were related.
In Brittany, "According to popular opinion, there is a close relation between the volume of the neck and puberty, sometimes even the virginity of girls.
Letourneau (299) called attention to the measurement of the neck as a test of puberty, and even of the virginity of maidens.
In this class fall poems and treatises in praise of virginity and books of devotion or admonition addressed to nuns.
It is true that in church and cloister the praise of virginity was forever dinned into their ears; but outside in the world it was not virginity that was praised.
His treatment represents the ugly, just as A Luue Ron represents the beautiful side of medieval praise of virginity and of monastic life.
After further reflections in this strain, he bursts into a long panegyric of virginity and then passes on to attack the manners of the friars.
The author of Hali Meidenhad persuades his spiritual daughter to vow her virginity to God by no better means than a savage and entirely materialistic attack upon the estate of matrimony.
Tertullian and Jerome (in anticipation of the end of the world) regarded virginity as an end in itself; that is to say, that they thought it noble and pious to renounce the function on which the perpetuation of the species depends.
Virginity was praised as Christlike and taught in opposition to society and the family.
If according to Christian standards virginity was the sole right rule and marriage was only a concession, it might justly be argued that the clergy ought to live up to the real standard, not the conventional concession.
The notion of virginity was very foreign to the mores of the Greeks, but it existed amongst them.
The Vestal Virgins might be cited as a proof that virginity was considered a qualification for high religious functions, so that it seemed meritorious and pure and a nobler estate than marriage.
Here comes in the notion ofvirginity and pre-nuptial chastity.
Much unhappiness has been caused in some cases where the husband has doubted the virginity of his wife because of the absence of the Hymen, but consultation with a capable physician usually removes this misunderstanding.
It was formerly regarded as an infallible sign of virginity, and its absence was regarded as a proof that virginity was lacking.
The immense consensus of belief in the perpetual virginity does not begin until long after all historical evidence was lost.
Let such as promise Virginity and break their profession be ranked among digamists," says the Council of Ancyra in the beginning of the fourth century.
It is observable that St. Methodius plainly speaks of the profession of Virginity as a vow.
Her pallor had become whiteness; her cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they remained closed and drooping.
This coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to virginity and modesty.
The hagiographers burst forth in loving praise of the brides of Jesus Christ; of those especially who put on the white robe of virginity and the red roses of martyrdom.
She had taken a vow of virginity and had transformed the spouse, who approached her like a devouring lion, into a timorous lamb.
It is virginity which gives men wings to soar towards heaven.
On their very first visit the young peasant maid vowed to them to preserve her virginity as long as it should please God.
It was only when it was explained to her that by a special dispensation of Providence her mothership was to be compatible with her continued virginity that she gave the requisite consent, and the Word was made Flesh within her womb.
An esteem forvirginity was indeed the creation of Christianity.
Are there reliable tests of the virginity of a girl?
Verily, it was like a bridal--the bridal of the fragrant wood, the virginity of May led to the fertility of July and August; the first unknowing kiss culled like a nosegay on the wedding morn.
Your son, Jesus, was born of the breath of God; you yourself were born without defilement of your mother's womb, and I would believe that this virginity goes back thus from age to age in endless unwittingness of flesh.
That learned casuistry, dealing so fully with the abominations of mankind, descending to the most monstrous examples of vice, violated, as it were, all his virginity of body and mind.
Beauty and virginity are insisted on in various passages in the magical papyri (see Abt op.
Virginity only, once it has been given, can never be repaid; it is the one portion of the dowry that remains irrevocably with the husband.
Thus she easily gained her father's consent that she should consecrate her virginity to God, and become a nun.
To the crown of virginity she earnestly desired to join that of martyrdom.
The maiden afterwards became a zealous Christian, and was consecrated to a life ofvirginity by the old bishop, whom she had saved from the rage of his enemies.
If the man had cause to believe that the woman had lost her virginity prior to marriage, he was not only entitled to cast her off, she might also be stoned to death.
The continued good will of the goddess must be purchased by this sacrifice of virginity to a stranger.
This sacrifice of virginity was deemed an atonement to the goddess for the exclusiveness of surrender to one man in marriage.
I told her, before bidding her adieu, that, her virginitybeing no longer necessary for my magic operations, I advised her to get married as soon as possible, if I did not return within three months.
I knew that the operation to unearth the treasure would be a complete failure, but I knew likewise that it would not fail because Javotte's virginity was gone.
The cause was, as he, poor father, had heard afterwards, that she had suffered a young student to kiss her, and so the pure virginity of her soul was lost.
Virginity beeing blowne downe, Man will quicklier be blowne vp: marry in blowing him downe againe, with the breach your selues made, you lose your Citty.
Good my Lord, Aske him vpon his oath, if hee do's thinke He had not my virginity Kin.
If in the morning the same thread would not go around her neck it was a sure sign that she had lost her virginity during the night; if it would, she was still a virgin or had been deflowered at an earlier period.
She sold their virginity five or six times over, and ended by selling the whole lot together.
Many authorities believe that the regard for women as property furnishes the true reason for the widespread insistence on virginity in brides.
Nothing we have said or quoted, however, can alter the fact that virginity has been and will always be a certain asset in civilised or semi-civilised communities.
In opposition to those who exact the virginity of the bride, there are others who attach no importance whatever to it.
It seems to us, however, that the woman’s part transcends the man’s throughout, and for that reason we prefer to look upon the story as illustrating a phase of virginity rather than as an example of priestly lust.
The non-existence of the material proofs of virginityseldom give rise to any complaint on the part of the husband.
That the privileges of virginity did not necessarily make for the owner’s happiness is instanced by Brantôme’s grim story.
Another common ancient test of virginity by urination rests on a psychic basis, and appears in a variety of forms which are really all reducible to the same principle.
And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "virginity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
