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.
FEROCITY
ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
(noun) the property of being wild or turbulent; “the storm’s violence”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ferocity (countable and uncountable, plural ferocities)
The condition of being ferocious.
Synonyms
• fierceness
• furiousness
• fury
• vehemence
• violence
• wildness
Source: Wiktionary
Fe*roc"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. ferocitas, fr. ferox, -ocis, fierce, kin to ferus wild: cf. F. ferocité. See Fierce.]
Definition: Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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