† viraginn.
Obsolete. rare.
= virago n.
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1558 J. Hales in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1576) 2005/2 This most rough brake, (wherwith this Viragin rather then Virgin..) boasted her selfe to be sent of God, to ryde and tame the people of England.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 364 The aforesaid two Virgins, or rather Viragins travelled to Rome with three the most beautifull of their society.
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