discommodity
noun
inconvenience; disadvantageousness.
discommodities
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pluralof discommodity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It appears, by the balance of commodities and discommodities of usury, two things are to be reconciled.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
Such men, more wilful than wise, beside other discommodities, take all place and occasion from all amendment.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
Therefore, though you begin there, to avoid carriage and like discommodities, yet build still rather upwards from the streams, than along.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
The discommodities of usury are, first, it makes fewer merchants.
From Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Calvin Elliott
To speak now of the reformation, and reiglement, of usury; how the discommodities of it may be best avoided, and the commodities retained.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
