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.
COMPORTANCE
Noun
comportance (usually uncountable, plural comportances)
(obsolete) behaviour; comport
Source: Wiktionary
Com*port"ance, n.
Definition: Behavior; comport. [Obs.] Goodly comportance each to other bear. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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