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31Glossary of spirituality-related terms (A-C) — This glossary of spirituality related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with A – C. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. NOTOC MediaWiki:Toc:… …
32Sexual continence — is a lifestyle in which one refrains from all sexual contact even while married. In the Early Christian Church of the West, sexual continence was required of deacons, priests and bishops. [ Celibacy in the Early Church: The Beginnings of… …
33Sabr (Islamic term) — Sabr (Arabic: صْبِرْ ṣabr) is the Islamic virtue of patience or endurance . Ṣabr, Encyclopaedia of Islam ] Sabr is characterized as being one of the two parts of faith (the other being shukr ). [ S̲h̲ukr, Encyclopaedia of Islam .] Its practice is …
34Swaminarayan Sampraday — Udharva Marka, a symbol of the Swaminarayan Sampraday Formation 1700s Type Religious Headquarters …
35Clerical celibacy (Catholic Church) — See also: Clerical celibacy Clerical celibacy is the discipline by which, in some Churches, only unmarried men are, as a rule, to be ordained to the priesthood. The same discipline holds in some other Churches for ordination to the episcopate.… …
36Contract — law …
37Eightfold Path — Buddhism. the eight pursuits of one seeking enlightenment, comprising right understanding, motives, speech, action, means of livelihood, effort, intellectual activity, and contemplation. * * * Buddhist doctrine, stated by the Buddha in his first… …
38English words first attested in Chaucer — Contents 1 Etymology 2 List 2.1 Canterbury Tales General Prologue …
39abstinence — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. abstaining, abstention, abstemiousness, temperance, forbearance, denial, self denial, self control, self restraint, continence, fasting, frugality, abnegation, renunciation, avoidance, sobriety, desistance, austerity,… …
40Avoidance — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Absence of pursuit. < N PARAG:Avoidance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 abstention abstention abstinence Sgm: N 1 for bearance for bearance Sgm: N 1 refraining refraining &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 inaction inaction &c. 681 …
