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celibacy

noun
/ˈsɛləbəsi/

Etymology

From Latin caelibātus (“celibacy, a single life”), from caelebs (“unmarried”).

  1. derived from caelibātus — “celibacy, a single life”

Definitions

  1. Abstaining from marriage

    Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.

    • They came to believe that men, who would live a godly life, must view marriage as a sin and choose a life of celibacy.
    • I could document this defense of celibacy. Unmarried women show up very well in all the tests of mental health.

  2. Abstinence from sexual relations.

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Derived

anticelibacy, celibacist, celibacy syndrome, incelibacy

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for celibacy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA