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.
LATINITY
Etymology
Noun
Latinity (countable and uncountable, plural Latinities)
(countable) The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.
(uncountable) Latin character
(uncountable) Latin literature considered as a whole
(countable) A Latinism
Synonyms
• Latinhood
• Latinness
Source: Wiktionary
La*tin"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. latinitas: cf. F. latinité.]
Definition: The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. "His eleLatinity." Motley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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