Celibacy definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CELIBACY, n. An unmarried state; a single life. It is most ... males, or to a voluntary single life. They look on celibacy as an accursed state. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n ... from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) [syn: chastity, celibacy, sexual abstention] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1646 1. the ... b. abstention by vow from marriage Webster's 1913 Dictionary Celibacy Ce*lib"a*cy, n. [See Celibate, n.] The state ... or of one bound by vows not to marry. ``The celibacy of the clergy.'' --Hallom. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Celibacy ...
... the Mount and the practice of the early church. Although celibacy is not mentioned it is implied in the picture here ... holiness. Both abstained from animal food and bloody sacrifices, admired celibacy and, dressing in white linen garments, had frequent washings. Both ... wife seems to throw doubt on their alleged preference for celibacy. Another chronological difficulty has to be met. The Pythagoreans as ... reverence for the Sabath is of a piece with their celibacy. Their avoidance of the Temple sacrifices, so far as they ... to be symptomatic of the unhealthy mental state engendered by celibacy. These writings are the product of a school that professed ...
... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CELIBATE, n. A single life; celibacy; chiefly used when speaking of the single life of the ... caelib-, caelebs unmarried Date: 1680 a person who lives in celibacy • celibate adjective Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. & n. --adj. 1 committed ... 2 abstaining from sexual relations. --n. a celibate person. Derivatives: celibacy n. Etymology: F célibat or L caelibatus unmarried state f ... n. [L. aelibatus, fr. caelebs unmarried, single.] 1. Celibate state; celibacy. [Obs.] He . . . preferreth holy celibate before the estate of marrige ...
... from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) [syn: chastity, celibacy, sexual abstention] 2: morality with respect to sexual relations [syn ... thousand liveried angels lackey her. --Milton. 3. The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 4. (Literature & Art) Chasteness. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary ... wife. (OLD-FASHIONED) He took a vow of chastity and celibacy. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Purity, virtue ... absoluteness, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, appropriateness, asceticism, avoidance, banyan day, celibacy, chasteness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, comeliness, continence, correctness, defectlessness, dignity ...
... state of being virgin; especially maidenhood 2. the unmarried life ; celibacy, spinsterhood Oxford Reference Dictionary n. the state of being a ... virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood. 2. The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Virginity is the state ... abstinence, artlessness, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, berry, brand-newness, callowness, celibacy, chasteness, chastity, continence, continency, dewiness, freshness, gloss of novelty, greenness ...
... mover and shaker] 2: a member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation ... a millenarian sect originating in England in 1747 and practicing celibacy and an ascetic communal life • Shaker adjective • Shakerism noun Merriam ...
... in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience Merriam Webster's noun see monastic ... abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, celibacy, continence, eremitism, fasting, flagellation, friarhood, maceration, maidenhead, maidenhood, mendicantism, misogamy ...
... worldly goods and practice various forms of self-denial, incl. celibacy, abstinence, and fasting. Though monasticism is rejected in the Quran ... Stoicism, Yom Kippur, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, avoidance, banyan day, celibacy, chastity, cold purgatorial fires, continence, eschewal, fast, fasting, fish day ...
... of the natural desires and inclinations by means of fasting, celibacy, voluntary poverty, etc., is "the way of perfection." This article ... anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, avoidance, banyan day, calm, calmness, celibacy, chastity, conservatism, constraint, continence, continency, control, cool, desuetude, dispassion, disuse ...