devirginateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

First attested in 1583; borrowed from Latin dēvirginātus, perfect passive participle of dēvirginō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

動詞

devirginate (third-person singular simple present devirginates, present participle devirginating, simple past and past participle devirginated)

1. (obsolete) To deprive of virginity; to deflower.
   • 1552, Bartolomé de las Casas, “Chapter 11”, in A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies:

     a profligate Christian attempted to devirginate a Maid, but the Mother being present, resisted him, and endeavouring to free her from his intended Rape, whereat the Spaniard enrag'd, cut off her Hand with a short Sword, and stab'd the Virgin in several places, till she Expir'd

   • 1621-1626, George Sandys, Upon the twelfth book of Ovid's Metamorphosis, in Metamorphosis (Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses):

     The Troians retire to their walls, and the Grecians to their Camp, when Achilles at a feſtivall relates the wonderfull story of Cygnus; which is paralell'd by Neſtor with another of Ceneus, once a maid, then called Cænis and devirginated by Neptune […]

語源 2

First attested in c. 1470, in 中期英語; inherited from 中期英語 devirginat(e), borrowed from Latin dēvirginātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

形容詞

devirginate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Deprived of virginity.
   • 1598, George Chapman, “Third Sestyad”, in Christopher Marlow[e], George Chapman, edited by S[amuel] W[eller] Singer, Hero and Leander. A Poem. […] (Select Early English Poets; VIII), Chiswick, London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […], published 1606 (republished 1821), →OCLC, page 44:

     Fair Hero, left devirginate,
     Weighs and with fury wails her state:
     But with her love and woman wit
     She argues, and approveth it.

派生語

アナグラム

• denigrative