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noun (n)

• an unmarried status(noun.state)

  source: wordnet30
• abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)(noun.act)

  Synonym:
  chastity, sexual abstention
  

  source: wordnet30
• The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.(noun)

  source: webster1913