celibate
బ్రహ్మచారి
definition
noun
The leaves are said to be invigorating and an aphrodisiac and, therefore, not to be used by celibates and ascetics.
a person who abstains from marriage and sexual relations.
adjective
a celibate priest
abstaining from marriage and sexual relations, typically for religious reasons.
translation of 'celibate'
బరహ్మచారి
example
Mitropoulos, who appears to have led a largely 'celibate' lifestyle, nevertheless seems to have known enough about love and lust to portray them unforgettably in music.
A few 'celibate' members live with their families for personal or professional reasons and are known as ‘associates’.
The Boston archdiocese's official newspaper said this week the Roman Catholic Church must face the question of whether to continue to require priests to be 'celibate' .
If you're single, or have made a conscious decision to be 'celibate' , you may be quite happy without having sex for a while.
The origins of this 'celibate' American religious movement can be traced to Sayville, Long Island, New York, where Father Divine came to public attention in the 1920s.
Single and 'celibate' for 17 years, she loved her husband, but says she doesn't miss him.
I know what it is like to be heterosexual, single, and 'celibate' and it is tough.
There is no agreement about the town he came from, his age at the time of the apparitions, whether he was married or a widower, or whether he and his wife had children or lived in a 'celibate' marriage.
You do need to look at the underlying reasons for your 'celibate' marriage and how you want to proceed with your husband.
He says at one point, for example, that it would have been highly unusual for a Jewish man in the 1st century to have been a 'celibate' .
And it includes persons who were 'celibate' and still champions of marriage, such as Paul and our Lord.
Last night, in an address to bishops in Nigeria, Pope John Paul II insisted that priests must live 'celibate' lives and avoid scandalous behaviour.
Single women in this context were assumed to be 'celibate' .
This may stem from the Roman Catholic view, where intimacy, even within the context of marriage, is considered a concession to base instincts, while sacred priests and nuns are 'celibate' .
Maude Guérin plays a lone wolf detective in the Prime Suspect mold - a single woman on the Quebec City homicide squad whose 'celibate' lifestyle is legendary.
But they dismissed questions about whether married priests were an option, saying a 'celibate' priesthood was not the reason for the shortage.
He astonished his friends and family by attempting to become a 'celibate' priest but two years of seminary studies persuaded him he lacked a vocation.
In the east, the upper ecclesiastical echelons - patriarchs in particular - were recruited from monasteries and therefore were 'celibate' , but ordinary priests were allowed to marry.
I'm seeing more and more 'celibate' relationships within marriage.
Yet, extant research suggests that a significant minority of these individuals may choose to discontinue all sexual relations and become 'celibate' for at least some period following their diagnosis.
This is one example of the way technology has been harnessed to ensure that if a woman didn't want to get pregnant, she could take steps to ensure that this didn't happen, without opting for a 'celibate' lifestyle.
He was to become a priest and lead the 'celibate' life.
Living a simple life, being vegetarian, abstaining from cigarettes and alcohol, being 'celibate' , and dedicating his actions to the welfare of all beings are ways in which a Buddhist monk tries to improve the world.
In any event, no one could accuse him of being a remote 'celibate' who did not know what he was talking about.
A wholly 'celibate' marriage is thus in principle quite conceivable, as is some variation of marriage between those more at home physically with those of their own gender.
Among the Armenians there are 'celibate' and married priests.
Single rats have been known to lead 'celibate' lives in the comfort of domestic house attics for several months while the house occupants are unaware of their existence.
I think what we might call the mystical strain in Christianity has always been extraordinarily important to me, and I think that's probably why this life suits me because I suspect I am probably a born 'celibate' .
Religious dress and grave goods were used to differentiate 'celibate' priests and monks from ordinary secular men.
This annoys me no end, especially considering the piles of people I know who are perfectly desirable but single or 'celibate' or virgins because of random situations.
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