Sentence example with the word 'celibacy'

celibacy

abstainment, aloneness, banyan day, eschewal, gymnosophy, loneness, monasticism, privacy, self-restraint, single blessedness, spinsterhood, vegetarianism

Definition n. an unmarried status

Last update: September 7, 2015


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Although we find Siricius a year later writing to the African Church on this same subject in tones rather of persuasion than of command, yet the beginning of compulsory sacerdotal celibacy in the Western Church may be conveniently dated from his decretal of A.D.   [Please select]

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Celibacy does not appeal strongly to men.   [Please select]

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Celibacy, at a certain age, was punished with a fine.   [Please select]

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"But to me, do you know, there is an enormous fascination in celibacy."   [Please select]

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William the Conqueror, through Archbishop Lanfranc, enforced celibacy in England.   [Please select]

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The rules of the Church enjoined temperance, continence, and celibacy; but the decrees of Leo IX.   [Please select]

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"--No, better eternal celibacy than marriage with such a being."   [Please select]

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