An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
PROSELYTISM
proselytism
(noun) the state of being a proselyte; spiritual rebirth resulting from the zeal of crusading advocacy of the gospel
proselytism
(noun) the practice of proselytizing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
proselytism (countable and uncountable, plural proselytisms)
The practice of proselytizing or the state of being a proselyte
Source: Wiktionary
Pros"e*ly*tism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. prosélytisme.]
1. The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party. They were possessed of a spirit of proselytism in the most fanatical degree. Burke.
2. Conversion to a religion, system, or party.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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