(n.) One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.
(a.) Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of their sexual practices in the preceding 6 months, the men were categorized into four groups: Group 1--unprotected oral intercourse only (n = 13), Group 2--unprotected oral and anal intercourse (n = 39), Group 3--unprotected anal intercourse only (n = 2), and Group 4--celibate (n = 6).
(2) John is in a long-term relationship with another clergyman, which he has affirmed is celibate.
(3) In many instances the personality factors and circumstances which led both to a decision to enter and then to leave a celibate religious community are not easily appreciated by the nonreligious professional counselor and do not readily lend themselves to extrapolation from other population groups.
(4) O'Brien explained that many priests found it "very difficult to cope" with the celibate life and suggested lifting that ban could soon happen in the wider church.
(5) Nor does it allow clergy to marry same-sex partners in civil ceremonies, and it only tolerates same-sex relationships if they are celibate.
(6) The CofE has refused to countenance any form of official liturgical recognition for civil partnerships; has sought special exemptions from human rights and equalities legislation in order to continue discriminating against openly gay clergy or gay employees; has repeatedly restated its condemnation of all sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage; and has formally debarred even celibate gay clergy from becoming bishops.
(7) But having to insist that I was happy being celibate made me uncomfortable.
(8) He said it was clear "beyond peradventure that those who attend the masses are nearly all what the archdiocese calls 'non-celibate gay people' who intend to continue to defy Catholic teaching".
(9) These marriages might be celibate, or dynastic formalities for the production of a new generation, while allowing for outside interests: Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West are a case in point.
(10) I want people to understand that being celibate can be as nourishing and fulfilling as being in a relationship.
(11) Men and women who have lived in a celibate religious community experience a unique set of sexual, social, and psychological problems upon resuming a secular life style.
(12) It tolerates clergy who are in civil relationships, but expects them to be celibate.
(13) Bishop of Grantham first C of E bishop to declare he is in gay relationship Read more In effect, there is one standard for the laity – which is to conform to the liberal norms of society – and a double standard for the clergy who are supposed to be celibate, even when they live with same sex partners, if not heterosexually married.
(14) Although the majority were celibate or monogamous during the prior year (men 52.5%, women 64.3%), many IVDUs had multiple sexual partners in that time, including 19.6% of men and 7.2% of women reporting five or more.
(15) The Church of Scotland has been edging towards gay ordination ever since Rennie's appointment: in 2011, the general assembly voted to allow gay ministers already in post to remain in place, so long as they were in openly-declared civil partnerships or celibate, and had been ordained before 2009.
(16) That same year, he revealed to startled breakfast television viewers that he had been celibate since 1981, but before that had been bisexual.
(17) Lowest risk is among celibate women and those who live in communities where marriage is stable and where premarital and extramarital coitus is infrequent.
(18) Antibodies were not found in homosexual men who were celibate, or who practised only oral intercourse during the same period.
(19) In the past two years, Suzie King, founder of celibate dating agency Platonic Partners , has seen a marked increase in visitors to her website (which began as a resource for the medically impotent).
(20) In the future it will probably be best to stay celibate, in the dark, awake for as long as possible and quiet.
Married
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Marry
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(2) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
(3) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(4) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
(5) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
(6) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
(7) Unmarried women had a higher risk of death than married women.
(8) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
(9) The two of them broke up with their partners and in 1974 they married.
(10) Of the 275 women with Crohn's disease 224 had been married at some time compared with 208 controls.
(11) The unmarried men won 8-1, showing that being married doesn't mean you can score whenever you like.
(12) In the multivariate logistic analysis the most informative clinical, social, and psychosocial predictors were, in rank order: many admissions to mental hospitals, death or divorce of parent in childhood, heavy smoking, short duration of the mental disorder diagnosed as affective, not married, never economically active, and early onset of the affective disorder.
(13) Participants were younger, more likely to be male, less likely to be currently married, and more likely to have had a white-collar job and some postsecondary education than were nonparticipants.
(14) The author presents in this article just a small part of the results obtained in national survey of 1.902 married women, carried out in 1972, on "fertility and family planning in Spain".
(15) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
(16) The energey expenditure during coitus for long-married couples is equivalent to that of climbing stairs, and consequently the risk of heart attack is low.
(17) According to Swedish law, couples who are planning to marry are obliged to publish their address.
(18) To elucidate the relationship between the presence of anti-Tax antibody and the transmission of the viral infection, annual consecutive serum samples from married couples serologically discordant or concordant for HTLV-I were examined.
(19) Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) obtained from married, adult males classified either as "copers" or as "non-copers" were tested for their natural killer (NK) activity and for the expression of the Leu 7 and Leu 11 NK-associated antigens.
(20) And if you think simply living together rather than marrying will help to keep you healthy, it is worth bearing in mind that research has found that cohabiting couples who separate are likely to be similarly affected .