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Definition of Celibates
1. celibate [n] - See also: celibate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Celibates
Literary usage of Celibates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conversion of Europe by Charles Henry Robinson (1917)
"Whatever else they were, neither the Celtic monks Celtic nor the Celtic clergy
in Ireland or Wales ever professed not nec to be a body of celibates, ..."
2. The Secret History of the Oxford Movement by Walter Walsh (1899)
"... secret Statutes—Its secret signs—Its mysterious "Committee of Clergy " —The
Roll of sworn celibates—Their Oath—Its secret Synods and Chapters—Brethren ..."
3. Pre-Malthusian Doctrines of Population: A Study in the History of Economic by Charles Emil Stangeland (1904)
"... by the following methods: (a) By placing various disabilities on celibates.
Those who married of their own accord were often given sundry advantages. ..."
4. Chapters on Human Love by Walter Matthew Gallichan (1898)
"... and the Essenes had sects of celibates. " The senseless practice of celibacy
has been ranked from a remote period as a virtue," says Darwin. ..."
5. The Historical Relation of New England to the English Commonwealth by John Wingate Thornton (1874)
"... this infallible vicegerent “re-animates... warns and exhorts” all his hierarchal
celibates, who have neither country nor home nor personal conscience, ..."
6. What Can be Certainly Known of God and of Jesus of Nazareth?: An Inquiry by John Moore Capes (1880)
"Taught exclusively by celibates.—The celibate doctrine carried to its extreme by
the Jesuits.—The doctrine taught in the great picture of the Sistine Chapel ..."
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