Synonym: chastity, sexual abstention. Similar words: celibate, taliban, libation, antibacterial, delicacy, indelible, deliberate, deliberately. Meaning: ['selɪbəsɪ] 
n. 1. an unmarried status 2. abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows).
n. 1. an unmarried status 2. abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows). 
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31. This has, indeed, been advanced as an official reason for the enforcement of celibacy among priests.
32. This is achieved by strict celibacy and ascetic practices.
33. My profession condemns me to celibacy.
34. Is celibacy a spiritual gift?
35. Particularly in the contemporary, because of the sex scandals of priests and the lack of priests(http://sentencedict.com/celibacy.html), Sacerdotal Celibacy becomes a hot topic again.
36. Did the teaching of Paul on celibacy a command or an opinion?
37. It includes mint, which signifies suspicion, hydrangea which means heartlessness, and cornflowers, which stand for celibacy.
38. Knowing this truth, one should observe the vow of celibacy in thought, speech and action wholeheartedly.
39. The Roman Catholic Church has always condemned homosexuality because of its supposed unnaturalness - but it has long idealized celibacy, which, some might argue, is equally unnatural.
40. But I want to say it: Celibacy is the crime. Homosexuality is only a symptom.
41. How does Paul's teaching differ from that of the ascetics about celibacy?
42. A friend asks him: " Don't you regret for your celibacy? "
43. Seven married priests who were expelled from the Catholic Church for failing to obey the law of celibacy have been ordained in the Kenyan city of Kisumu.
44. Gregory VII did more than any previous Pope to enforce clerical celibacy.
45. Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to.
46. The concept of celibacy carries connotations of asceticism and religious fervor.
47. Bertone's comment that "many" psychologists and psychiatrists had demonstrated a link between paedophilia and homosexuality, but not the vow of celibacy, drew official ire from France.
48. How am I supposed to get in your pants if you took a vow of celibacy?
49. He asserted the supremacy of the Holy Writ over church dogma, attacked the worship of images, relics, and saints, and denounced the sacramental view of the Eucharist and enforced celibacy as well.
50. The abrogation of compulsory celibacy showed the utter instability and lack of moral foundation of the sect.
51. Both Mithraism and early Christianity considered abstinence, celibacy, and self- controltobe among their highest virtues.