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.
MALIGNANCES
Noun
malignances
plural of malignance
Source: Wiktionary
MALIGNANCE
Ma*lig"nance, Ma*lig"nan*cy , n. Etym: [See Malignant.]
1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.
2. Unfavorableness; evil nature. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. Shak.
3. (Med.)
Definition: Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
4. The state of being a malignant.
Syn.
– Malice; malevolence; malignity. See Malice.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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