celibacy 的定义
- abstention from sexual relations.
- abstention by vow from marriage: the celibacy of priests.
- the state of being unmarried.
celibacy 近义词
abstinence from sexual activity
更多celibacy例句
- Pre-modern Christian women had options besides celibacy as well, although the state, the church and mediocre medicine limited their reproductive choices.
- For eight to 10 days, Jains focus on the values of forgiveness, humility, straightforwardness, truth, contentment, self-restraint, penance, renunciation, nonattachment and celibacy.
- Like many evangelical and Christian denominations, the Seventh-day Adventist Church believe that being LGBTQ is a sin, and that life-long celibacy is the only acceptable response to a LGBTQ person’s sexuality.
- Others have run the gamut from a few worries to strict celibacy.
- Kao said aspects of the shooting is reminiscent of “incel” culture and the men who blame women for their involuntary celibacy.
- When it appears it is largely used to chastise transsexuals and to promote celibacy.
- And the ones protesting the loudest may be the war-mongering men forced into pacifist celibacy.
- By embracing celibacy, Hales is embarking upon one of the only sanctioned paths for LGBT students at BYU.
- Priestly celibacy, obviously: you'll naturally attract people who can't act on their sexual desires in public.
- Do you think that if the rules on celibacy were loosened, this would change things considerably?
- He was rather gratified than otherwise to hear that Mr. Puffin had begun to waver in his ideas about celibacy.
- Those religious systems which impose celibacy on the priesthood are not without reason for it.
- His only remedy is to abolish the poor-rates, and starve the poor into celibacy.
- Soon adultery becomes the most respectable form of marriage, and widowhood and celibacy are commonly practised.
- They were setting at defiance the laws of celibacy; they not only sought wives, but they lived in concubinage.