celibate的意思|celibate的解释-里氏词典

celibate ['selibәt]

n. 独身者, 独身主义者

a. 独身的, 独身主义的

The Catholic Church is perpetually short of priests, not least because it limits its recruitment to well-educated celibate males.
天主教会始终都缺乏神父，尤其是因为它限制了招收受过良好教育的独身男性。
Her Orthodox Jewish upbringing and my own Catholic scruples imposed a celibate grace that made even kissing a distant prospect, however fervently desired.
她那犹太正教的教养和我自己天主教徒的种种顾虑使我们表现出一种未婚者的羞涩，连亲吻也是可望而不可即的事，尽管我十分渴望。

celibate

[ noun ]

an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity

<noun.person>

[ adj ]

abstaining from sexual intercourse

<adj.all>

celibate priests

Celibate \Cel"i*bate\, n. [L. aelibatus, fr. caelebs unmarried,
single.]
1. Celibate state; celibacy. [Obs.]

He . . . preferreth holy celibate before the estate
of marriage. --Jer. Taylor.

2. One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by
vows not to marry.

Celibate \Cel"i*bate\, a.
Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.

Bertha Lindsay, the last eldress of the Shakers, a celibate religious sect that promoted communal living and pacifism for more than 200 years, has died.
The hierarchy wants to do that, but they are writing from a male celibate perspective.
The synod is expected to focus on the difficulty in maintaining the church's rules that priests be celibate and foresake marriage "in a world characterized by eroticism," as a working document put it.
The other replies, "You shouldn't complain; just think what would happen if he were celibate."
Any aspect of sex is another, and today C4 starts a series called Catholics And Sex (11.00) with a look at the celibate priesthood which hands down diktats from the Holy See and the ordinary people who pay the price.
I lived in a celibate society.
He was also, by all reports, a celibate who tucked himself in with a volume of Spinoza.
Directors of the California study are seeking Roman Catholic priests and nuns as volunteers to take the vaccine as a control group because of their celibate lifestyles.
Unlike most Christian denominations, the Roman Catholic church generally insists that its priests be single and celibate.
Mahony, however, denied Sunday that anyone suggested to him that Catholic clergy were being sought because of their celibate lives.
The church's rules that priests be celibate and foresake marriage are not expected to be subjects up for debate, according to church sources involved in preparations for the meeting.

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