syneisactic

comparative more syneisactic · superlative most syneisactic

1. Pertaining to syneisactism; living together in chastity.

   On Elvira's reckoning, if clerical marriage were to continue it must strictly be without sex, in the syneisactic manner.

   2024, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lower Than the Angels, Penguin, published 2025, page 184

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   A syneisactic society, where women and men mingle and relate to one another without reference to accepted sex roles, is deeply threatening to the conventional order.

   1994, Jo Ann McNamara, edited by Clare A. Lees, Medieval Masculinities, University of Minnesota Press, page 14