Celibacy

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  • noun. Abstinence from sexual relations.
  • noun. The condition of remaining unmarried, especially for religious reasons.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being celibate or unmarried; a single life; voluntary abstention from marriage: as, the celibacy of the clergy.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.
  • noun. Abstaining from sexual relations.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an unmarried status
  • noun. abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)
    • Word Usage
    "Pope Benedict XVI said that the Vatican's recent sex-abuse crisis might prompt aspiring priests to question the Catholic Church's requirement that clergy be celibate, wading for the first time into a debate over whether priestly celibacy is partly to blame for the abuse."
    cross-reference
    abstinence  bachelordom  chaste  chastity  purity  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    abstinence  condition  status  
    Same Context
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    abstention  abstinence  allegiance  asceticism  austerity  
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    Encratism  Friday  Lenten fare  Platonic love  Pythagoreanism  
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