celibates in English

noun
1
a person who abstains from marriage and sexual relations.
The leaves are said to be invigorating and an aphrodisiac and, therefore, not to be used by celibates and ascetics.

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1. Incels, or “involuntary Celibates," are a hate group

2. She put her work-Calloused hand upon his hot forehead and felt his pulse.(Martin Eden, by Jack London) They are a company of celibates, grinding harshly against one another and growing daily more Calloused from the grinding