celibacy

celibacy
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Unmarried state
Nouns
1. celibacy, singleness, single blessedness; bachelorhood, bachelorship, spinsterhood; misogamy, misogyny; virginity, pucelage, maidenhood; chastity, continence, sexual abstinence. Slang, light housekeeping. See asceticism.
2. (celibate person) bachelor, Coelebs, agamist, misogamist, misogynist, monk, priest, lone wolf; spinster; maid, maiden, virgin, femme sole, old maid. Informal, single, the answer to a maiden's prayer.
3. bachelor apartment. Slang, repent pad.
Verbs — be unmarried, live alone; take the vow, save oneself.
Adjectives — celibate, monastic, abstinent; unmarried, unwed[ded], wifeless, spouseless; bachelorly, spinsterly, maidenly; single, lone; maiden, virgin, chaste.
Quotations — A young man married is a man that's marred (Shakespeare), Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures (Samuel Johnson), A single man... is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors (Benjamin Franklin), Chastity — the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions (Aldous Huxley).
Antonyms, See marriage.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. virginity, abstinence, continence; see chastity .

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