Celibacy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CELIBACY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• abstention from sexual intercourse
• the state of abstaining from marriage and sexual relations
• The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.
• an unmarried status
• abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)

Words related to CELIBACY

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How to use CELIBACY in a sentence

• He held in abhorrence the superstitious observances of the Romish Church, and set his face against the celibacy of the clergy.
• Mormonism has its logic, as an appeal from the enforced celibacy of one sex, and to the Oriental Abrahamic instincts of the other.
• It is by what you can make of celibacy that the world will judge celibacy.
• A STATE OF MARRIAGE IS TO BE PREFERRED TO A STATE OF CELIBACY.
• For those who have made this subject their study have long ago been satisfied that public celibacy is private wickedness.
• As it was, her infidelity condemned him to a celibacy for which, as she knew, he was utterly unsuited.
• Thus I have hitherto, in spite of myself, passed my life in frozen celibacy.
• I must not omit here that in every lot was directed whether the drawer should marry or remain in celibacy, the married lots being all marked with a large pair of horns.
• A great number of our old maids may trace their solitude and their celibacy to the very questionable gift of such beauty, and the dispositions which usually accompany it.
• His heart contracted with tenderness as he took vows that could not have been more religious if they had been made concerning celibacy instead of concerning marriage.
• Young women who took vows of celibacy and lived in religious institutions could yet make business investments, as surviving records show.
• As, for instance, those in which the apostle teaches in the present chapter the several duties and advantages of marriage and celibacy.
• You will observe that in these words he attributes no intrinsic merit or dignity to either celibacy or marriage.
• Nothing should induce him to break his vow of celibacy.
• Celibacy and abstinence are rarely observed in their monasteries but these are by no means of low repute.
• I have long had my doubts concerning these vows of perpetual celibacy for women.
• The celibacy of Tiberius had undoubtedly contributed to the social isolation which had been fatal both to him and to the state.
• Doctrine of Purgatory, 442 Celibacy and Asceticism, 443 CHAPTER V.
• Fortunately she taught absolute celibacy, and so there are now only about a thousand of her disciples.
• She was young, and they plead the cruelty of forcing celibacy on her.
• All the other interests of society appear to us to be better safeguarded by marriage than by celibacy.
• This is accomplished if all superior individuals marry as well as possible, yet with advancing years gradually reduce the standard so that celibacy may not result.
• It is to be noted that this was centuries before the celibacy of priests became one of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church.
• These women were consecrated to perpetual celibacy, and were put to death if found to be with child, unless they could swear that their child was begotten by the sun.
• Still further, he would escape the social odium which now attaches to his celibacy, for whatever a man pays for is regarded as his right.

Similar words containing CELIBA without suffix cy

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