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

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person who abstains from sexual relations.
- : a person who remains unmarried, especially for religious reasons.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : observing or pertaining to sexual abstention or a religious vow not to marry.
- : not married.

adj.abstaining from sexual activity

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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 ideal.

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 ideal.