Celibate [adjective]

I used to believe that there was benefit to health and increase of power, whether physical or mental, in the celibate life.

This glimmer of wonder and envy, the revelation of a life intensely celibate, was for an instant infinitely touching.

And besides they tend to the extinction of the human species by reason of their monastic and celibate ideal.

It goes without saying that this remarkable man was a High Churchman and a celibate.

"It would bring a little colour into one's life," said Eric, looking with disfavour at the grimly celibate sitting-room.

He afterward took the first steamer for Peru, where he entered a monastery and became a celibate.

If they died celibate, their disappearance needs no further explanation.

It takes all sorts to make a church; she does not ask me to be celibate.

While he held the See of Dumblane, he was of course a subject of considerable interest to the celibate ladies in the neighborhood.

I know a clergyman who has wisely dedicated himself to a celibate life because there is marked insanity in his family.