In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
COEXISTENCE
coexistence
(noun) existing peacefully together
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
coexistence (countable and uncountable, plural coexistences)
The state of two or more things existing together, usually in a temporal or spatial sense, with or without mutual interaction.
Source: Wiktionary
Co`ex*ist"ence, n.
Definition: Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence. Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any condition. Jer. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DITHER
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