as in purity
abstention from sexual intercourse
a widower who has maintained absolute celibacy since the death of his wife
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Recent Examples of celibacy
Yasmin is thinking about whether to end her celibacy.
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Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 28 May 2024
Julia Fox, Lenny Kravitz have opened up about celibacy
Mýa was the latest star to open up about celibacy.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
In fact, choosing a life of celibacy was considered a higher spiritual calling, for single women as well as for men.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 30 July 2024
And indeed, according to studies, celibacy is on the rise among a Gen Z frustrated with hookup culture and in response to the cultural sea changes around consent.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2024
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Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 28 May 2024
Julia Fox, Lenny Kravitz have opened up about celibacy
Mýa was the latest star to open up about celibacy.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
In fact, choosing a life of celibacy was considered a higher spiritual calling, for single women as well as for men.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 30 July 2024
And indeed, according to studies, celibacy is on the rise among a Gen Z frustrated with hookup culture and in response to the cultural sea changes around consent.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for celibacy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for celibacy
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Branding became essential to the differentiation that would earn the easy recognition and loyalty of customers, though labels about the purity of contents or lack thereof didn’t matter in this former landscape.Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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Many companies state that their products are 99% pure, but an independent investigation of three companies’ products from August 2023 to March 2024 found that the purity of the products were far less than promised.C. Michael White / The Conversation, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2024
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For some, chastity devices involve orgasm denial for the duration of the month.Mikelle Street, Them, 9 Oct. 2024
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The anti-erotic Christianity that Monica professed condemned the vanity of human learning and encouraged chastity.Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
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Texture was never Eastwood’s strong point; his films have mainly been stark and spare, with a sense of style that can nearly be defined as an abstinence from style.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
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Those who knew Francis commonly attributed her longevity to her lifelong abstinence from alcohol and smoking.Dawn Sawyer, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
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“Celibacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/celibacy. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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