Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CE-LIB'A-CY
CE-LIB'A-CY, n. [L. cœlebs, an unmarried person; cœlibatus, a single life.]
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. – Spectator.
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