celibate
IPA: sˈɛɫɪbʌt
noun
- One who is not married, especially one who has taken a religious vow not to get married, usually because of being a member of a religious community.
- (obsolete) A celibate state; celibacy.
verb
- (rare) To practice celibacy
adjective
- (chiefly religious) Not married.
- (by extension) Abstaining from sexual relations and pleasures.
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Examples of "celibate" in Sentences
- The others, he said, are celibate.
- He is the god of war and is celibate.
- One can be the latter and be celibate.
- The boon works if he remains celibate.
- If they want to remain celibate, well that’s their custom.
- I am a lifelong celibate, and the whole world is my family.
- The reason that priests are to remain celibate is financial.
- They have to remain celibate, but that's not part of the vow.
- He will never marry and will remain celibate all of his life.
- There are religious and celibate Lgbt members of the community.
- They keep the sacred writings of their people, and are celibate.
- The Eastern Catholic Churches ordain both celibate and married men.
- The support and tolerance of celibate homosexuality not its condemnation.
- A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road.
- No one has asked for assurances that they plan to remain celibate before marriage.
- And what is happening is an unraveling of the whole, what I call the celibate sexual system.
- All of which points to a question: What if two men love each other, and want to spend their lives living and being together -- but also agree to remain celibate?
- 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!
- It is an unnatural state (but then again, aren't lying and stealing also?) and homosexuals should not embrace their sinful nature and should remain celibate if loving the opposite sex prove too difficult.