In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TAMENESS
tameness, domestication
(noun) the attribute of having been domesticated
jejunity, jejuneness, tameness, vapidity, vapidness
(noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tameness (countable and uncountable, plural tamenesses)
(uncountable) The state or quality of being tame.
(countable, rare) The result or product of being tame.
Anagrams
• meatness
Source: Wiktionary
Tame"ness, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being tame.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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