Lexicographical Neighbors of Celibacies
Literary usage of Celibacies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Allan Menzies, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"Priesthood is (a function) of widowhood and of celibacies among the nations.
Of course (this is) in conformity with the devil's principle of rivalry. ..."
2. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1885)
"Priesthood is (a function) of widowhood and of celibacies among the nations.
Of course (this is) in conformity with the devil's principle of rivalry. ..."
3. New America by William Hepworth Dixon (1867)
"... their hatreds and divisions, their anathemas, celibacies, and excommunications.
The devil, says Noyes, began his reign on the very same day with Christ, ..."
4. The Christian Examiner (1851)
"A dangerous idea we call it emphatically, for out of it, we are satisfied, spring
hasty, half-reluctant, ill-assorted marriages, unhappy celibacies, ..."
5. A Little Tour in America by Samuel Reynolds] [Hole (1895)
"... immaculate conception, compulsory celibacies and confessions, with other fond
things vainly invented, without the authority of an (Ecumenical Council. ..."
6. The Methodist Review (1873)
"... population to the size of the earth as that wars, pestilences, massacres,
infanticides, celibacies, and sexual preventions, are a blessing to mankind. ..."
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