Usually means: Christian women dedicated to celibacy.
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  1. agapetae: Merriam-Webster
  2. Agapetae, agapetae: Wiktionary
  3. Agapetae: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. agapetae: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  5. agapetae: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  6. agapetae: Merriam-Webster

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▸ noun:  Women of the early Christian church who cohabited in a state of "spiritual love" with clergy or laymen who had vowed chastity.

Similar:
agapet, matristics, Encratite, agape, syneisaktism, Apotactite, Tryphena, Athanasian wench, Aquila, synapte, more...

Opposite:
misogynist, woman-hater, anti-feminist

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Similar:
agapet, matristics, Encratite, agape, syneisaktism, Apotactite, Tryphena, Athanasian wench, Aquila, synapte, more...

Opposite:
misogynist, woman-hater, anti-feminist



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