In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ZEALOTRIES
Noun
zealotries
plural of zealotry
Source: Wiktionary
ZEALOTRY
Zeal"ot*ry, n.
Definition: The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause. Enthusiasm, visionariness, seems the tendency of the German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of the French. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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