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.
OVERIDENTIFY
Etymology
Verb
overidentify (third-person singular simple present overidentifies, present participle overidentifying, simple past and past participle overidentified)
(intransitive) To identify too much (with another person or thing).
The patient's gender issues stemmed from his overidentifying with his mother.
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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