Sentence example with the word 'celibate'

celibate

abbacomes, barren, desert, gaunt, intact, misogamist, nonprolific, priest, sterile, unmarried, vestal

Definition adj. abstaining from sexual intercourse

Last update: June 7, 2015


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According to this authority Jovinian in 388 was living at Rome the celibate life of an ascetic monk, possessed a good acquaintance with the Bible, and was the author of several minor works, but, undergoing an heretical change of view, afterwards became a self-indulgent Epicurean and unrefined sensualist.   [Please select]

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Extending his hand, the voluntary celibate replied, with cheerful reassurance: "I believe it now, Miss Flower."   [Please select]

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With the curious constancy of the Irish, he had remained determinedly celibate.   [Please select]

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If there had been then, as now, a celibate priestly caste, no doubt then, as now, priests would also have been relieved of their family name rights.   [Please select]

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