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celibacy
noun as in abstinence from sexual activity
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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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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