Associations to the word «Celibacy»

Wiktionary

CELIBACY, noun. Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.
CELIBACY, noun. (by extension) Abstaining from sexual relations.

Dictionary definition

CELIBACY, noun. An unmarried status.
CELIBACY, noun. Abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne