In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
UNBLESS
Etymology
Verb
unbless (third-person singular simple present unblesses, present participle unblessing, simple past and past participle unblessed)
(transitive, obsolete) To deprive of blessings; to make wretched.
(transitive, computing, programming, Perl) To convert (a previously blessed object) back to a simple reference.
Anagrams
• bunless, sublens
Source: Wiktionary
Un*bless", v. t. Etym: [1st pref. un- + bless.]
Definition: To deprive of blessings; to make wretched. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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RECREANT
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
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