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UK
/sˈɛlɪbˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈsɛɫɪbət/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛɫɪbət/ ]
NOUN
- an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity
ADJECTIVE
-
abstaining from sexual intercourse
celibate priests
How To Use celibate In A Sentence
- The celibate may choose to use prayer for the release of energy during gnosis and the sex magician uses the act of intercourse as a conduit.
- The Boston archdiocese's official newspaper said this week the Roman Catholic Church must face the question of whether to continue to require priests to be celibate.
- Last night, in an address to bishops in Nigeria, Pope John Paul II insisted that priests must live celibate lives and avoid scandalous behaviour.
- celibate priests
- These are real people - people who still support the war, people who believe that women should be subservient to men, people who believe that gays should strive to be cured or remain celibate! MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?
- Perhaps it would be best in such shows to ditch relationships entirely, making the heroine into a female James Bond who uses and discards men or a female gunslinger type who lives celibately, but each of those has problems of its own. Good News, Bad News
- He would discourage in both the householders and the celibate youths any lukewarmness in their spiritual struggles.
- This may stem from the Roman Catholic view, where intimacy, even within the context of marriage, is considered a concession to base instincts, while sacred priests and nuns are celibate.
- Single and celibate for 17 years, she loved her husband, but says she doesn't miss him.
- A wholly celibate marriage is thus in principle quite conceivable, as is some variation of marriage between those more at home physically with those of their own gender.