In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
UNTETHER
Etymology
Verb
untether (third-person singular simple present untethers, present participle untethering, simple past and past participle untethered)
(transitive) To undo by removing a tether.
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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