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Contraposition Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Chastity or celibacy?

a vow of chastity or a vow of celibacy?
  

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Celibacy means abstaining from marriage and sexual relations , typically for religious reasons. Chastity means the state or practice of refraining from extramarital, or esp. from all, sexual intercourse .

  • Celibacy means abstaining from marriage and sexual relations , typically for religious reasons.
  • Chastity means the state or practice of refraining from extramarital, or esp.
  • from all, sexual intercourse .
  • They're close, but not exactly the same.
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Celibacy means abstaining from marriage and sexual relations, typically for religious reasons.

Chastity means the state or practice of refraining from extramarital, or esp. from all, sexual intercourse.

They're close, but not exactly the same.

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