celibacy
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The ecstasies of attraction are sublimated into their long conversations about Boethius and Hildegard von Bingen, or about the suddenly debatable issues of contraception and clerical celibacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Now that I’ve had some distance from it and can look at it more objectively, I’m finding that people in these testimonials change their behavior, enter into mixed-orientation marriages, or choose celibacy.
From Slate • Oct. 14, 2025
Under the Church's by-laws, only monks who took a vow of celibacy can be elected a Catholicos.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025
Even though Febos’ wife, poet Donika Kelly, who Febos met after her period of celibacy concluded, appears briefly at the end of the book, Febos resisted having her there at all.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2025
He spoke to Abra of the necessity for abstinence and decided that he would live a life of celibacy.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing celibacy
"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving
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“On Civil Disobedience” by Mohandas K. Gandhi
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The Girls I've Been
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