unmarried+state

  • 41Dorothea Beale — LLD (21 March 1831 – 9 November 1906) was a suffragist, educational reformer, author and Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies College. Born in Bishopsgate, England, she was the founder of St Hilda s College, Oxford. Her name is associated with that …

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  • 42The Woman Who Did — (1895) is a novel by Grant Allen about a young, self assured middle class woman who defies convention as a matter of principle and who is fully prepared to suffer the consequences of her actions. It was first published in London by John Lane in a …

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  • 43Vigilantius — Vigilantius, (fl. c. 400), the presbyter, celebrated as the author of a work, no longer extant, against a number of Catholic practices, which called forth one of the most violent of St Jerome s polemical treatises. [ The Oxford Dictionary of the… …

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  • 44hagostealdhád — m ( a/ a) unmarried state …

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  • 45celibacy — The unmarried state which is commended by Paul (1 Cor. 7:20–7) but without insisting on it as a discipline. There is no sin in getting married and those who are married need not obtain separations. Paul s advice is to avoid any personal… …

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  • 46chastity — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. innocence, purity, virtue, abstinence, celibacy, virtuousness, uprightness, honor, monogamy, faithfulness, fidelity, integrity, decency, delicacy, goodness, virginity, maidenhood, bachelorhood, unmarried state, demureness,… …

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  • 47celibate — [ sɛlɪbət] adjective 1》 abstaining from marriage and sexual relations for religious reasons. 2》 having or involving no sexual relations. noun a person who is celibate. Derivatives celibacy noun Origin C19: from celibacy (C17, from Fr. célibat or… …

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  • 48celibacy — n. Single life, unmarried state, abstinence from marriage …

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  • 49single life — Celibacy, unmarried state …

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  • 50chastity — n 1. chasteness, virtue, virtuousness, goodness; innocence, innocency, modesty, Rare. pudicity; purity, pureness, untouchedness, uncor ruptedness; freshness, cleanness, spotlessness, stain lessness, immaculacy, immaculateness. 2. celibacy,… …

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