Meaning of CELIBACY
| Pronunciation: | | 'selubusee
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- [n] abstaining from sexual relations
- [n] an unmarried status (as because of religious vows)
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| | Synonyms: | | chastity, sexual abstention |
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| | See Also: | | abstinence, condition, status | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are celibate, represents your fears of intimacy. You may be trying to block off your sexual energies. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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