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.
LOVELINESS
comeliness, fairness, loveliness, beauteousness
(noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
loveliness (countable and uncountable, plural lovelinesses)
(uncountable) The property of being lovely, of attractiveness, beauty, appearing to be lovable.
(countable) The result of being lovely.
(zoology, collective) A group of ladybirds.
Source: Wiktionary
Love"li*ness, n. Etym: [From Lovely.]
Definition: The state or quality of being lovely. If there is such a native loveliness in the sex as to make them victorious when in the wrong, how resistless their power when they are on the side of truth! Spectator.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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