CELIBACY DEFINITIONS - 10 definitions found
celibacy n 1: an unmarried status 2: abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) [syn: chastity, celibacy, sexual abstention] celibacy 1663, formed in Eng. from L. c?ilibatus "state of being unmarried," from c?ilebs "unmarried," from PIE base *kaiwelo- "alone" + lib(h)s- "living." Celibate first recorded 1829. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) celibacy noun Date: 1646 1. the state of not being married 2. a. abstention from sexual intercourse b. abstention by vow from marriage Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary celibacy Celibacy is the state of being celibate. N-UNCOUNT Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Celibacy But earthly happier is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness. SHAKESPEARE: Mid. N. Dream, Act i., Sc. 1. Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain But our destroyer, foe to God and man? MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 748. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Celibacy \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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms celibacy n. Single life, unmarried state, abstinence from marriage. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) celibacy ˈselɪbəsɪ n. 1 bachelorhood, spinsterhood, singleness: People who say they enjoy celibacy may simply have not met the right partner. 2 chastity, virginity, continence, (self-)restraint, abstinence, purity: They have to take a vow of celibacy before entering the priesthood. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 68 Moby Thesaurus words for "celibacy": Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Platonic love, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, asceticism, avoidance, bachelorhood, banyan day, chastity, continence, continency, detachment, eschewal, fast, fish day, friarhood, fruitarianism, gymnosophy, intactness, isolation, keeping apart, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, maidenhead, maidenhood, monachism, monasticism, monkery, moving apart, nephalism, plain living, privacy, purity, refraining, refrainment, seclusion, self-restraint, separateness, sequestration, sexual abstinence, simple diet, single blessedness, singleness, solitariness, solitude, spare diet, spinsterhood, splendid isolation, teetotalism, the pledge, total abstinence, vegetarianism, virginity, withdrawal |
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