celibacy

IPA: sˈɛɫʌbʌsi

Examples of "celibacy" in Sentences

The princess had vowed celibacy.
He taught celibacy and the rejection of gender categorizations.
Celibacy is respected and the slaughter of animals is forbidden.
Celibacy was generally required of the bishop in the early church.
Celibacy was not required, and the rituals of the school are unique.
In addition many people use it to justify celibacy of the priesthood.
Celibacy symbolizes the reality of the kingdom of God amid modern society.
In the West, the law of celibacy was universally required by the 11th century.
The issue of clerical celibacy was treated with laxity by the Byzantine Greeks.
As the Shakers practiced celibacy, the colony faded away and was closed in 1889.