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.
SIMPLICITER
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Adverb
simpliciter (not comparable)
(philosophy, law, originally chiefly in Scots law) Simply, absolutely; without any qualification or condition.
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