Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
BADNESS
naughtiness, mischievousness, badness
(noun) an attribute of mischievous children
badness, severity, severeness
(noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
bad, badness
(noun) that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; “take the bad with the good”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
badness (countable and uncountable, plural badnesses)
The quality or degree of being bad.
Synonyms
• See badness
Anagrams
• Basdens
Source: Wiktionary
Bad"ness, n.
Definition: The state of being bad.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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