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
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
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
They discoursed of the Queen’s residence in Pomerland, or some other place near this country, and of the discommodities and inconveniences which would arise thereby.
From A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Charles Morton
To speak now of the reformation and reiglement of usury; how the discommodities of it may be best avoided, and the commodities of it retained.
From Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Calvin Elliott
