celibacy vow
Promise against intimacy
A celibacy vow is a formal commitment to abstain from sexual activity and marriage, typically made for religious reasons.
Catholic priests, monks, and nuns take such vows as part of their dedication to spiritual life.
The vow may be temporary or permanent depending on the religious order: She took a celibacy vow when she entered the convent.
- chastityAbstaining from sexual activity
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- sacred vowReligiously binding promise
- monasticismCloistered religious living
- monastic lifeReligious community living
religious life · self-discipline · tradition · nunhood · simplicity · consecration · priesthood · asceticism · purity · gender roles · hermitage · stigma · autonomy · intentionality · self-control · ordination · ethical living · virtue
- self-sacrificehuman shield, selflessness, self-denial, renunciation, forfeit
- priesthoodpriest, ordained, Catholic priest, Orthodox priest, parish priest
- ordinationholy orders, laying on of hands, ordination ceremony, ordained minister, ordinand
celibacy vowmarriage
Formal union between partners
marriage vows · wedding vows · matrimony · marital union · sexual freedom
celibacy vowmarriage
Formal union between partners
wedding vow · betrothal · engagement · civil union · handfasting
celibacy vowhedonism
Pursuit of gratification
libertinism · debauchery · carnality · licentiousness · pleasure-seeking
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