No worship is more natural and more engaging to chaste celibates in whose brain a pure, vague vision is always present, the reverie of a family constituted without the intervention of sex.
The crypts of Provins kept him occupied for a week in explorations, and gave a topic of conversation to the unhappy celibates for many evenings.
Sylvie trembled; she was terribly afraid of death, an idea which shakes all celibates to their centre.
I would rather try to return by some pantagruelian subtlety to my herd of celibates and honest women, with many an attempt to discover some social utility in their passions and follies.
One of the most important of his duties will be to conceal from his wife the real state of his fortune, so that he may satisfy her fancies and caprices as generouscelibates are wont to do.
Are there not in every country, as we have demonstrated, a vast number of men who live as honestly as possible, without being either celibates or married men?
It has the merit of yielding important lessons for husbands, while at the same time it gives the celibates a delightful picture of morals in the last century.
Now if the number of celibates be multiplied by the number of their excesses in love the result will be three millions of adventures; to set against this we have only four hundred thousand honest women!
The conspiracy which is formed against you by our million of hungry celibates seems to be unanimous in its advance.
Think of our husbands, who to the disgrace of morals behave almost all of them like celibates and glory in petto over their secret adventures.
The tact with whichcelibates discover the moment when the breeze begins to rise in a new home can only be compared to the indifference of those husbands for whom the Red-moon rises.
It is evident that, on the whole, girls who make a poor showing in their studies in such schools as this are more likely to be life-long celibates than are the bright students.
Celibates substitute habits for feelings; and when to that moral system, which makes them pass through life instead of really living it, is added a feeble character, external things assume an extraordinary power over them.
Celibacy, however, presents the inherent vice of concentating the faculties of man upon a single passion, egotism, which renders celibates either useless or mischievous.
He urged, for instance, the taxing of celibatesand their exclusion from the magistracy in order that their want of patriotism might be singled out and punished.
When Irenæus attacked the vegetarian water-drinking celibates of the Church of Jerusalem which had migrated to Pella (A.
When James started the vegetarian water-drinking celibates of the Church of Jerusalem.
No more monstrous injustice could be imagined than that the burden of rearing the children should fall on her alone and not on the celibates and the selfish as well.
Mildred Lawson and John Norton are celibatesby nature.
Certainly, no Catholic will say that the counsels in regard to voluntary poverty are meant only for celibates, and that only celibates are entitled to gain the consequent blessings.
Even during the ages that priestly marriage was permitted, celibates obtained a higher reputation for sanctity and virtue than married priests, who infinitely more than celibates were believed subject to infestation by demons.
The superior respect paid to the celibates even among women is attributed to direct instruction of the apostles.
The savage despises celibates as thieves or sorcerers.
Among the Greeks, celibates were punished, and among the Romans they were taxed heavily.
We have more and more Pauline celibates whose objection to marriage is the intolerable indignity of being supposed to desire or live the married life as ordinarily conceived.
Where do you wish that our mass of celibatesshould sow their wild oats?
A swarm of celibates will support all their sallies and you will be assailed and persecuted as an original, a tyrant, a bad bed-fellow, an eccentric man, a man not to be trusted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "celibates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
