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.
RECOMMITMENT
Etymology
Noun
recommitment (countable and uncountable, plural recommitments)
A renewal of a commitment, or an act of recommitting
Source: Wiktionary
Re`com*mit"ment (-mnt), Re`com*mit"tal (-l), n.
Definition: A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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