In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HARDSHIP
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
(noun) something hard to endure; “the asperity of northern winters”
hardship
(noun) something that causes or entails suffering; “I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women”- James Boswell; “the many hardships of frontier life”
adversity, hardship, hard knocks
(noun) a state of misfortune or affliction; “debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity”; “a life of hardship”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hardship (countable and uncountable, plural hardships)
Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
Antonyms
• softship
Verb
hardship (third-person singular simple present hardships, present participle hardshipping, simple past and past participle hardshipped)
(transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
Source: Wiktionary
Hard"ship, n.
Definition: That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”
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