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.
MUCHNESS
muchness
(noun) greatness of quantity or measure or extent
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
muchness (countable and uncountable, plural muchnesses)
Large size or bulk; bigness; size; magnitude (large or small).
Greatness in quantity, number, amount, or degree.
Source: Wiktionary
Much"ness, n.
Definition: Greatness; extent. [Obs. or Colloq.] The quantity and muchness of time which it filcheth. W. Whately. Much of a muchness, much the same. [Colloq.] "Men's men; gentle or simple, they 're much of muchness." G. Eliot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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