In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
CATEGORICALNESS
Etymology
Noun
categoricalness (uncountable)
The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
But in the mean time […] it looks all so like subterfuge and inveigling; it is so nauseating and tedious a task, that no man thinks he owes the Author so much service as to find out the reason of his own categoricalness for him.
Source: Wiktionary
Cat`e*gor"ic*al*ness, n.
Definition: The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. A. Marvell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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