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.
SLIPPERINESS
rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness, trickiness
(noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal
slickness, slick, slipperiness, slip
(noun) a slippery smoothness; “he could feel the slickness of the tiller”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
slipperiness (countable and uncountable, plural slipperinesses)
(uncountable) The property of being slippery.
(countable) The result or product of being slippery.
Source: Wiktionary
Slip"per*i*ness, n.
Definition: The quality of being slippery.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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