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Celibacy

Celibacy Meaning & Definition
Celibacy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Celibacy?

[n] abstaining from sexual relations
[n] an unmarried status (as because of religious vows)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Celibacy: chastity | sexual abstention

Related Terms | Find terms related to Celibacy: abstainment | abstemiousness | abstention | abstinence | alienation | aloneness | aloofness | asceticism | avoidance | bachelorhood | banyan day | chastity | continence | continency | detachment | Encratism | eschewal | fast | fish day | friarhood | Friday | fruitarianism | gymnosophy | intactness | isolation | keeping apart | Lenten fare | loneliness | loneness | lonesomeness | maidenhead | maidenhood | monachism | monasticism | monkery | moving apart | nephalism | plain living | Platonic love | privacy | purity | Pythagoreanism | Pythagorism | Rechabitism | refraining | refrainment | seclusion | self-restraint | separateness | sequestration | sexual abstinence | Shakerism | simple diet | single blessedness | singleness | solitariness | solitude | spare diet | Spartan fare | spinsterhood | splendid isolation | Stoicism | teetotalism | the pledge | total abstinence | vegetarianism | virginity | withdrawal

See Also | abstinence | condition | status

Celibacy In Webster's Dictionary

\Ce*lib"a*cy\, n. [See {Celibate}, n.] The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry. ``The celibacy of the clergy.'' --Hallom.

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