revirginate

Verb

revirginate (third-person singular simple present revirginates, present participle revirginating, simple past and past participle revirginated)

1. (transitive) To become a virgin again.
   • Media expose/s that hail virginity as a trend; advice books that characterize it as an asset and a tool; women who "revirginate"; plastic surgeons who reconstruct hymens— virginity in such instances does at least as much to revise, resist, and evade statements about patriarchal power as it does to...2002, Differences - Volume 13, Issue 2, page 11
   • 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.2004, Jill Conner Browne, God Save the Sweet Potato Queens, →ISBN, page 158
2. (intransitive) To restore to virginity; to make into a virgin again.
   • The sensational London Pall Mall Gazette scandal in the eighteen-nineties brought facts to light which prove that, in civilised England, the mania for defloration led to a veritable cult, and that the demand for virgins could only be satisfied by girls being artificially revirginated three, four...1927, Bernhard Adam Bauer, Woman, a Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology and Sexual Life of Woman
   • In the much-plagiarized A Manifest Detection of the most vile and detestable use of Dice-play [1552] the probable author, Gilbert Walker, recounts this anecdote of an old bawd who attempts to "revirginate" one of her girls to trick a gull who insists upon bedding only virgins: "This Mother Bawd...1988, James T. Henke, Gutter Life and Language in the Early "street" Literature of England, page 57
3. (broadly) To restore to an inexperienced state.
   • It's necessary for Congresspersons to revirginate themselves each election year.1985, Jacqueline Briskin, Too much too soon, page 369
   • In his opera, Britten, by telling what we've always heard without listening, revirginates our ears.2013, Ned Rorem, An Absolute Gift: A New Diary, →ISBN
4. To restore to a pristine state; to rejuvenate.
   • Get up the paint to revirginate the ship before the ice thrusts growling towards the prow by Malice Point.1938, The Atlantic Monthly - Volume 162, page 634
   • Thus Hera retires to her yearly rejuvenating, revirginating bath.1981, Sylvia Brinton Perera, Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women, page 55
5. To make a fresh start.
   • Feelings whose flush never revirginates!1930, Thomas Sturge Moore, Mystery and Tragedy: Two Dramatic Poems, page 52
   • ...as the moon is renewed monthly, so Alatiel "revirginates" at the end of the story, thus annihilating the experience of long wanderings and countless coitions.1979, Millicent Joy Marcus, An Allegory of Form