Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
SCRUPULOSITY
Etymology
Noun
scrupulosity (countable and uncountable, plural scrupulosities)
The property of being scrupulous; excessive attention to scruples.
Source: Wiktionary
Scru`pu*los"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. scrupulositas.]
Definition: The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision. The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires. Dr. H. More. Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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