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.
IMPUDENCY
Etymology
Noun
impudency (plural impudencies)
(now rare) Impudence.
There is nothing I hate more than driving of bargaines: It is a meere commerce of dodging and impudencie.
Source: Wiktionary
Im"pu*den*cy, n.
Definition: Impudence. [Obs.] Burton. Audacious without impudency. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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