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Webster 1913 Edition

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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.”

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An unmarried state; a single life. It is most frequently if not always applied to males, or to a voluntary single life.

They look on celibacy as an accursed state.