incommodity
Americannoun
plural
incommodities-
disadvantage; inconvenience.
noun
-
a less common word for inconvenience
Etymology
Origin of incommodity
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Latin word incommoditās. See incommode, -ity
Example Sentences
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He could cease to think of them only when he ceased to think of his loss and privation, and the days had as yet but scantily lightened the weight of this incommodity.
From The American by James, Henry
At this particular time, by reason of the incommodity of the house, the rite was performed at the door of the domicile.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles
Writing from London, on his arrival, Johnson said, 'I came home last night, without any incommodity, danger, or weariness, and am ready to begin a new journey.
From James Boswell Famous Scots Series by Leask, W. Keith (William Keith)
What a clap of thunder to Excellency Hanbury; his masterpiece found suddenly a superfluity, an incommodity!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Carlyle, Thomas
We will, I say, therefore begin by considering what manner of pain or incommodity we should reckon imprisonment to be of itself and of its own nature alone.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica
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