celibacy
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- cælibacy (archaic)
Etymology[edit]
From Latin caelibātus (“celibacy, a single life”), from caelebs (“unmarried”).
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Noun[edit]
celibacy (countable and uncountable, plural celibacies)
- Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.
- 1920, American Lutheran Survey[1], volumes 13-14, page 16:
- They came to believe that men, who would live a godly life, must view marriage as a sin and choose a life of celibacy.
- 1970, The Futurist[2], page 42:
- I could document this defense of celibacy. Unmarried women show up very well in all the tests of mental health.
- (by extension) Abstinence from sexual relations.
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state of being unmarried
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abstaining from sexual relations
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Further reading[edit]
- “celibacy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “celibacy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.