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.
CARNALITY
prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, lubricity
(noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
carnality (countable and uncountable, plural carnalities)
The state of being carnal.
A preoccupation with sexual desire.
Source: Wiktionary
Car*nal"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. carnalitas.]
Definition: The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind. Because of the carnality of their hearts. Tillotson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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