In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
COLLECTIVITIES
Noun
collectivities
plural of collectivity
Source: Wiktionary
COLLECTIVITY
Col`lec*tiv"i*ty, n.
1. Quality or state of being collective.
2. The collective sum. aggregate, or mass of anything; specif., the people as a body; the state.
The proposition to give work by the collectivity is supposed to be in contravention of the sacred principle of monopolistic competition. W. D. Howells.
3. (Polit. Econ.) Collectivism.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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