In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
EXPUNCTION
expunction, expunging, erasure
(noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
expunction (countable and uncountable, plural expunctions)
The act of expunging or erasing.
Synonym: expunctuation
The condition of being expunged.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*punc"tion, n. Etym: [L. expunctio execution, performance, from expungere. See Expunge.]
Definition: The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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