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.
MODERNITY
modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness
(noun) the quality of being current or of the present; “a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
modernity (plural modernities)
The quality of being modern or contemporary.
Modern times.
(history) Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.
Source: Wiktionary
Mo*der"ni*ty, n.
Definition: Modernness; something modern. Walpole.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANOMALY
(noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
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