cælibacy

English

Noun

cælibacy (uncountable)

  1. Archaic spelling of celibacy.
    • 1750, “The Female Student”, The Student, or, The Oxford and Cambridge monthly miscellany‎, page 188:
      Beſides there is an aukward kind of baſhfulneſs inherent in an old collegian, which makes him ſhudder even at the ſight of a petticoat, and often condems him, during life, to an irkſome ſtate of cælibacy.
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