incelibacy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

in- +‎ celibacy

Noun[edit]

incelibacy (uncountable)

  1. Sexual activity by one who is supposed to remain celibate.
    • 1989, The Discourse on the Fruits of Recluseship:
      Having abandoned incelibacy, he leads the holy life of celibacy.
    • 1997, Dinty W. Moore, The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, →ISBN:
      I undertake the training rule to abstain from incelibacy.
    • 2013, William M. Johnston, Encyclopedia of Monasticism, →ISBN:
      The Buddha not only commended celibacy as an ideal but also knit it into the fabric of monastic life through the disciplinary code of the Vinaya. The third precept undertaken by the novice is abstaining from incelibacy.