adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He had remained celibate for three years before he met Hannah.
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She was not prepared for a celibate life in the Church.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A celibate period followed, he says, before he started making out with men.
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But Jim had been living a celibate life for nearly eighteen years and planned to continue doing so.
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It costs much less to support celibate clergy than ministers or rabbis with spouses and children.
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It was unsettling to know that a panel of celibate strangers were scrutinizing her most intimate affairs.
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The celibate person is more available, not less so.
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The priest must be celibate in order to purify himself for the handling of the sacred in the sacrament.
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The result was that Dahomean kings were very fecund, while ordinary Dahomean men were often celibate and barren.