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The priests are celibate.celibate = having taken a religious vow of chastity (to not have sexual relations)
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No one wanted to become stepfather to this child, which is why she had chosen to spend her life entirely celibate. (source)celibate = never having sexual intercourse
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...she'd sort of come to accept celibacy as a permanent way of life. (source)
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Now I knew about celibacy. (source)celibacy = abstaining from sexual intercourse
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I am a celibate, madam. (source)celibate = someone who abstains from sexual intercourse
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But what could you expect, he'd say, from an institution run by celibate men who wore dresses.† (source)celibate = never having sexual intercourse
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A vow of celibacy and the relinquishment of all personal assets hardly seemed a sacrifice.† (source)celibacy = the state of never having sexual intercourse
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It seems that McCandless was drawn to women but remained largely or entirely celibate, as chaste as a monk.† (source)celibate = never having sexual intercourse
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Do you know how the Papists teach their celibates to master their desire?† (source)
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The old ones they send off to the Colonies right away, but the young fertile ones they try to convert, and when they succeed we all come here to watch them go through the ceremony, renounce their celibacy, sacrifice it to the common good.† (source)celibacy = the state of never having sexual intercourse
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What, me, celibate?† (source)celibate = never having sexual intercourse
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They are a company of celibates, grinding harshly against one another and growing daily more calloused from the grinding.† (source)
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Six doesn't have the best track record for celibacy, and apparently some of the guys I've made out with don't have the best track record for secrecy.† (source)celibacy = the state of never having sexual intercourse
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You're celibate, but you want to change that.† (source)celibate = never having sexual intercourse
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Each of these groping celibates supplied at any rate a want of which the other was impatiently conscious.† (source)
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It's not like you've been languishing in celibacy.† (source)celibacy = the state of never having sexual intercourse
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