Wicca vs Maiden - What's the difference?
wicca | maiden |
A neopagan religion first popularised in 1954 by British civil servant , involving the worship of God and Goddess and the observance of eight Sabbats.
A girl or an unmarried young woman.
A female virgin.
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A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
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*:As for that said sire Bors I wille be shryuen with a good wylle / Soo syr Bors was confessyd / and for al wymmen sir Bors was a vyrgyne / sauf for one / that was the doughter of kynge Brangorys / and on her he gat a child that hyghte Elayne / and sauf for her syre Bors was a clene mayden
A maidservant.
An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
A racehorse without any victory ('virgin record').
(label) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
:(Wharton)
(label) A maiden over.
(label) A machine for washing linen.
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Virgin.
* Thackeray
Without offspring.
Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
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(cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
Of a fortress, never having been captured or violated.
As a proper noun wicca
is a neopagan religion first popularised in 1954 by british civil servant , involving the worship of god and goddess and the observance of eight sabbats.As a noun maiden is
morning.wicca
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Hyponyms
* Eclectic Wicca, Alexandrian Wicca, Gardnerian Wicca, Odyssean Wicca, Dianic Wicca, Celtic Wicca, Faery WiccaDerived terms
* Wiccan, Wiccanism, Wiccanist *Wiccanize, Wiccanizing *Wiccaphobia, wiccaphobeSee also
* (Wicca) * (Witchcraft)References
maiden
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* maidenhair * maidenhead * maidenhood * maidenly, maidenliness * maiden flight * maiden voyage * maiden name * maiden of honor * iron maidenSynonyms
* bacheloretteAdjective
(-)- a surprising old maiden lady
- Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?
- The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage .
- After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member.
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- maiden flowers
- Full bravely hast thou fleshed / Thy maiden sword.
- (Macaulay)