discommodity
Americannoun
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discommodities
plural
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inconvenience; disadvantageousness.
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a source of inconvenience or trouble; disadvantage.
noun
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economics a commodity without utility
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archaic the state or a source of inconvenience
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Origin of discommodity
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You go about, in rain or fine at all hours without discommodity.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
To preuent which discommodity, one of the best remedies is the sufficient and fit distance of trees.
From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by William Lawson
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
He doth know the commodities and discommodities of all kinde of wares which you doe send vs.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt
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
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
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
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