English to afrikaans meaning of

celibacy

Die woordeboekbetekenis van selibaat is die toestand van ongetroud wees en onthouding van seksuele verhoudings, veral om godsdienstige redes. Dit kan ook verwys na die gelofte of praktyk om van seksuele aktiwiteit te onthou, dikwels as deel van godsdienstige toewyding of om persoonlike redes.

Sentence Examples

  1. There was no way he could, with a clear conscience, promote celibacy and not practice it.
  2. Envisioning himself as a clergyman made him smile, knowing the vow of celibacy would have proven very difficult, more likely impossible, to keep.
  3. the suffering angel had remained in the heartless state of celibacy twenty long years, and that for the sake of a man who could forget her!
  4. And Artemis, past sixty years old, had definitely spent all those decades in complete celibacy.
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