celibacy

piety

Sincere religious devotion

• sanctityQuality of being inviolable
• holinessSacred spiritual purity
• devotionDeep, loyal commitment

asceticism · spirituality · saintliness · penance · mortification · renunciation · sacrifice · dedication · prayer · meditation

abstinence

Voluntary forgoing of indulgences

• continenceControl over bodily functions
• self-denialRestraining one's own desires
• restraintControl over impulses

self-control · temperance · renunciation · forbearance · self-discipline · self-restraint · moderation · willpower · asceticism · abnegation

monasticism

Cloistered religious living

• vowSolemn personal commitment
• priesthoodOrdained religious office
• clergyOrdained religious officials collectively

nun · monk · friar · convent · monastery · ordination · consecration · novitiate · habit · cloister

virginity

Absence of carnal experience

• purityUncontaminated quality
• virtueMoral goodness or merit
• modestyAbsence of vanity

innocence · continence · decency · uprightness · morality · abstention · unmarried · unwed · maiden · maidenhood

singlehood

Unmarried state

• bachelorhoodUnwed man's status
• spinsterhoodUnwed woman's status
• solitudeState of being alone

unmarried · solitary · hermit · recluse · seclusion · independence · single life · unattached · partnerless · alone

• church historychurch history, apostles, Protestant Reformation, Christian history, baptism
• Buddhist monasteriesabbots, lamas, monastery life, monastic life, monastic vows
• Penanceconfession booth, act of contrition, contrition, penitent, public penance
• Religious Abstinenceabstinence, Lent, Ramadan, dietary laws, kosher
• religious issueschurch and state, religious freedoms, religious tolerance, religious exemptions, interfaith
• sexual customssexual norms, sexual taboos, marriage customs, courtship, virginity