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celibacy
CIDE DICTIONARY
The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry. Hallom. [1913 Webster]
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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, withdrawalROGET THESAURUS
celibacy
Celibacy
N celibacy, singleness, single blessedness, bachelorhood, bachelorship, misogamy, misogyny, virginity, pucelage, maidenhood, maidenhead, unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist, old bachelor, misogamist, misogynist, monogamist, monk, unmarried woman, spinster, maid, maiden, virgin, feme sole, old maid, bachelor girl, girl-bachelor, nun, unmarried, unwed, unwedded, wifeless, spouseless, single.Also see definition of "celibacy" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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