diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml
index 0154064e50..7e7f0ed00c 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml
@@ -197,15 +197,17 @@ createdb -O <replaceable>rolename</replaceable> <replaceable>dbname</replaceable
    predefined by your version of
    <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.  <literal>template0</literal>
    should never be changed after the database cluster has been
    initialized.  By instructing
    <command>CREATE DATABASE</command> to copy <literal>template0</literal> instead
-   of <literal>template1</literal>, you can create a <quote>virgin</quote> user
+   of <literal>template1</literal>, you can create a user
    database that contains none of the site-local additions in
    <literal>template1</literal>.  This is particularly handy when restoring a
    <literal>pg_dump</literal> dump: the dump script should be restored in a
-   virgin database to ensure that one recreates the correct contents
+   pristine database (one where no user-defined objects exist and where
+   system objects have not been altered), to ensure that one recreates
+   the correct contents
    of the dumped database, without conflicting with objects that
    might have been added to <literal>template1</literal> later on.
   </para>
 
   <para>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
index 4014f6703b..e56aca6d30 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
@@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ CREATE DATABASE <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>
   <para>
    By default, the new database will be created by cloning the standard
    system database <literal>template1</literal>.  A different template can be
    specified by writing <literal>TEMPLATE
    <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable></literal>.  In particular,
-   by writing <literal>TEMPLATE template0</literal>, you can create a virgin
+   by writing <literal>TEMPLATE template0</literal>, you can create a
    database containing only the standard objects predefined by your
    version of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.  This is useful
    if you wish to avoid copying
    any installation-local objects that might have been added to
    <literal>template1</literal>.