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.
PRURIENCE
prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, lubricity
(noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
prurience (countable and uncountable, plural pruriences)
The quality of being prurient.
Source: Wiktionary
Pru"ri*ence, Pru"ri*en*cy, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being prurient. The pruriency of curious ears. Burke. There is a prurience in the speech of some. Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SCHNORR
(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”
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