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.
IMMORALITIES
Noun
immoralities
plural of immorality
Source: Wiktionary
IMMORALITY
Im`mo*ral"i*ty, n.; pl. Immoralities. Etym: [Cf. F. immoralité.]
1. The state or quality of being immoral; vice. The root of all immorality. Sir W. Temple.
2. An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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