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celibate

/sel-uh-bit, -beyt/US // ˈsɛl ə bɪt, -ˌbeɪt //UK // (ˈsɛlɪbɪt) //

独身者,独身主义者,独身,独身主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who abstains from sexual relations.
    • : a person who remains unmarried, especially for religious reasons.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : observing or pertaining to sexual abstention or a religious vow not to marry.
    • : not married.

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Examples

  • Later, he told me that, because he could not change his sexuality, he planned to stay celibate for life.

  • After a brief fling at age 40, he was celibate for the next 35 years.

  • He was 35 at the time, a widely admired teacher and girls’ basketball coach who lived in a People of Praise home for celibate men.

  • We can address these problems without all becoming celibate.

  • Does he really think that telling gay Christians to be celibate is a good idea?

  • If married life is as boring and joyless as this document, I am glad I am celibate.

  • His great-uncle, who has never self-identified as gay but who Sam believes is, lives a celibate life committed to the Church.

  • I believe that you can choose to be celibate and that you can train people to be celibate.

  • And there have always been those who have remained celibate or had only one lifelong sexual partner.

  • I used to believe that there was benefit to health and increase of power, whether physical or mental, in the celibate life.

  • This glimmer of wonder and envy, the revelation of a life intensely celibate, was for an instant infinitely touching.

  • And besides they tend to the extinction of the human species by reason of their monastic and celibate ideal.

  • It goes without saying that this remarkable man was a High Churchman and a celibate.

  • "It would bring a little colour into one's life," said Eric, looking with disfavour at the grimly celibate sitting-room.