In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FUTILITIES
Noun
futilities
plural of futility
Source: Wiktionary
FUTILITY
Fu"til`i*ty, n. Etym: [L. futilitas: cf. F. futilité.]
1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.]
2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SCHNORR
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