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Definition of Celibacy

1. Noun. An unmarried status.

2. Noun. Abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows).

Definition of Celibacy

1. n. The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.

Definition of Celibacy

1. Noun. Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried. ¹

2. Noun. Abstaining from sexual relations. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Celibacy

1. abstention from sexual intercourse [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Celibacy

celestist celestists celestite celestites celestrol celetoid celetoids celiac celiac artery celiac disease

celiac sprue celiac trunk celiacs celibacies celibacist celibately celibates celibatic celibatist celibatists

celiectomy celio- celiocentesis celioenterotomy celiogastrostomy celiogastrotomy celiohysterectomy celiohysterotomy

Literary usage of Celibacy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"It was for the purpose of more firmly securing the attach- biic of the men* °f churchmen that the celibacy of the clergy was in ..."

2. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1867)
"A priest, a prelate, already hound to the see of Rome hy his functions and his hopes, is further detached from his country, hy the celibacy he is obliged to ..."

3. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1893)
"They are, the institution of ecclesiastical celibacy, and the annexation of a temporal principality to the centre of .spiritual authority, ..."

4. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"celibacy OF THE CLERGY AND THE REGULATION OF CLERICAL MARRIAGE The insistence ... In the West the celibacy of the clergy as a body was an ideal from the ..."

5. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1908)
"... celibacy — as to which grave complaints were made as early as 520 BC — naturally increased in proportion, especially among the upper classes. ..."

6. Ethics, General and Special by Owen Aloysius Hill (1920)
"THESIS VIII celibacy, when love of virtue is its motive, is more excellent than ... celibacy and virginity compared. Virginity means integrity, or immunity ..."

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