In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
NONVOLUNTARY
involuntary, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary
(adjective) not subject to the control of the will; “involuntary manslaughter”; “involuntary servitude”; “an involuntary shudder”; “It (becoming a hero) was involuntary. They sank my boat”- John F.Kennedy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
nonvoluntary (not comparable)
Not voluntary.
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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