There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
SACRILEGE
profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege
(noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; “desecration of the Holy Sabbath”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sacrilege (usually uncountable, plural sacrileges)
Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.
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Source: Wiktionary
Sac"ri*lege, n. Etym: [F. sacrilège, L. sacrilegium, from sacrilegus that steals, properly, gathers or picks up, sacred things; sacer sacred + legere to gather, pick up. See Sacred, and Legend.]
Definition: The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege to dig. Spenser. Families raised upon the ruins of churches, and enriched with the spoils of sacrilege. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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