In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PRAVITY
Etymology
Noun
pravity (countable and uncountable, plural pravities)
(now, rare, archaic) perversion, depravity; wickedness. [from 16th c.]
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• parvity
Source: Wiktionary
Prav"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. pravitas, from pravus crooked, perverse.]
Definition: Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature. "The pravity of the will." South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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