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cælibacy

cælibacy is the archaic spelling of celibacy.

Meaning of celibacy

Noun

celibacy (countable and uncountable, plural celibacies)

  1. Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.
    • They came to believe that men, who would live a godly life, must view marriage as a sin and choose a life of celibacy.1920, American Lutheran Survey, volumes 13-14, page 16
  2. (broadly) Abstinence from sexual relations.

Questions about cælibacy

What is cælibacy the archaic spelling of?
Cælibacy is the archaic spelling of celibacy.

Words near cælibacy in the dictionary

  1. cæcity
  2. cæcum
  3. cæcums
  4. cælestial
  5. cælestiall
  6. cælibacy
  7. cælibate
  8. cæment
  9. cæments
  10. cæmentum
  11. cænogeneses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cælibacy (page history and authors); celibacy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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