All 3 Uses of
celibate
in
This Side of Paradise
- He was intensely ritualistic, startlingly dramatic, loved the idea of God enough to be a celibate, and rather liked his neighbor.†
Chpt 1.1 *celibate = never having sexual intercourse
- I've enjoyed imagining that you were my son, that perhaps when I was young I went into a state of coma and begat you, and when I came to, had no recollection of it...it's the paternal instinct, Amory—celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.... Sometimes I think that the explanation of our deep resemblance is some common ancestor, and I find that the only blood that the Darcys and the O'Haras have in common is that of the O'Donahues...Stephen was his name, I think.... When the lightning strikes one of us it strikes both: you had hardly arrived at the port of embarkation when I got my papers to start for Rome, and I am waiting every moment to be told where to take ship.†
Chpt 1.4celibacy = the state of never having sexual intercourse
- Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
abstaining from (i.e., never having) sexual intercourse
or:
an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity
or:
an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity