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.
PRETENTIOUSNESS
pretentiousness, pretension, largeness
(noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation
(noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pretentiousness (countable and uncountable, plural pretentiousnesses)
The quality of being pretentious.
Source: Wiktionary
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GUILLOTINE
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
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