Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Born of the Virgin: an epithet applied to Jesus Christ by Milton.
- In zoology, born from an unfecun-dated female by a process of internal gemmation, as a plant-louse.
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Examples
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Even if Muslims and Evangelicals differ in some understandings of Jesus, both affirm Jesus as a virgin-born prophet and Messiah whose message is preserved in what Muslims call the Injil or "Gospel" and Christians identify as the New Testament.
Ben DeVan: Evangelicals And Muslims Loving God, Each Other, And The World Together? Ben DeVan 2011
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Even if Muslims and Evangelicals differ in some understandings of Jesus, both affirm Jesus as a virgin-born prophet and Messiah whose message is preserved in what Muslims call the Injil or "Gospel" and Christians identify as the New Testament.
Ben DeVan: Evangelicals And Muslims Loving God, Each Other, And The World Together? Ben DeVan 2011
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Together we believe in the virgin-born son, who died on the cross and was resurrected on Easter Sunday — really resurrected, like The Washington Post could have reported it.
Beyond Belief 2005
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Together we believe in the virgin-born son, who died on the cross and was resurrected on Easter Sunday — really resurrected, like The Washington Post could have reported it.
Beyond Belief 2005
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Christianity was founded by the virgin-born son of God, Jesus Christ.
Love is . . . 2006
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From Mithraism Christ takes the symbolic keys of heaven and assumes the function of the virgin-born Saoshayant, the destroyer of the Evil One…11
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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From Mithraism Christ takes the symbolic keys of heaven and assumes the function of the virgin-born Saoshayant, the destroyer of the Evil One…11
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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There was a little while yet to wait before Matins began at the midnight hour, the celebration of God made flesh, virgin-born and wonderful.
The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986
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Like the birth of Rome itself, whose obscure foundation, according to the beautiful myth, was laid by the outcast son of a Vestal Virgin, the kingdom of the despised virgin-born Jesus of Nazareth that cometh not with observation, stole unawares, amid the meanest circumstances, into the very heart of the Roman world.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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Tshingiz-Khan is said to be virgin-born; that, word for word, Scythianus is Sak; that Sakya Muni (compare it with Manes) is a name of Buddha.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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