Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
AFFLICTIVELY
Etymology
Adverb
afflictively (comparative more afflictively, superlative most afflictively)
In an afflictive manner
Source: Wiktionary
Af*flic"tive*ly, adv.
Definition: In an afflictive manner.
AFFLICTIVE
Af*flic"tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. afflictif.]
Definition: Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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