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Choosing not to play the game instead of losing it.
means The state of abstaining from marriage and/or sexual activity, often by choice or vow.
from From Latin caelibatus, from caelebs, meaning 'unmarried.' The Latin root is old and its deeper origins are murky — some scholars link it to a compound suggesting 'alone' or 'without a partner,' but the trail goes cold before certainty. The word entered English through church Latin, carried along by centuries of clergy for whom the vow was less a feeling and more a job requirement.
- not chastity
- chastity is restraint, celibacy is total abstention
- etymology
- from latin caelebs, meaning unmarried
- priesthood rule
- not mandatory in catholicism until the 12th century
- modern rise
- gen z adopting it as a dating-app detox