In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LIMITLESS
boundless, unbounded, limitless
(adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent; “unbounded enthusiasm”; “children with boundless energy”; “a limitless supply of money”
unlimited, limitless
(adjective) having no limits in range or scope; “to start with a theory of unlimited freedom is to end up with unlimited despotism”- Philip Rahv; “the limitless reaches of outer space”
illimitable, limitless, measureless, unmeasured
(adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity; “limitless vastness of our solar system”; “The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.”--Sophocles
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
limitless (comparative more limitless, superlative most limitless)
Without limits in extent, size, or quantity; boundless.
Synonyms
• unbottomed, unlimited; see also infinite
Source: Wiktionary
Lim"it*less, a.
Definition: Having no limits; unbounded; boundless. Davies (Wit's Pilgr.).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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