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• cælibacy (archaic)

語源

From Latin caelibātus (“celibacy, a single life”), from caelebs (“unmarried”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɛləbəsi/

名詞

celibacy (countable and uncountable, plural celibacies)

1. Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.
   • 1920, American Lutheran Survey‎, volumes 13-14, page 16:

     They came to believe that men, who would live a godly life, must view marriage as a sin and choose a life of celibacy.

   • 1970, The Futurist‎, page 42:

     I could document this defense of celibacy. Unmarried women show up very well in all the tests of mental health.

2. (by extension) Abstinence from sexual relations.

同意語

• sexlessness

上位語

• chastity

派生語

関連する語

• celibate

参考

• abstinence
• asexuality
• chaste
• chastity
• purity
• bachelordom

Further reading

• “celibacy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “celibacy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.