In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
COMPLEMENTATION
complementation
(noun) the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
complementation (countable and uncountable, plural complementations)
(mathematics) The replacement of a set by its complement
(genetics) The interaction between two genetic units such that an organism can function normally if either one is defective
(grammar) The relationship of a phrase to its predicate
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RIGHT
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
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