Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
DOCTRINARIANISM
Etymology
Noun
doctrinarianism (usually uncountable, plural doctrinarianisms)
The principles or practices of doctrinaires.
Source: Wiktionary
Doc`tri*na"ri*an*ism, n.
Definition: The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.
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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