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discommodity

American  
[dis-kuh-mod-i-tee] / ˌdɪs kəˈmɒd ɪ ti /

noun

Archaic.

plural

discommodities

  1. inconvenience; disadvantageousness.

  2. a source of inconvenience or trouble; disadvantage.

discommodity British  
/ ˌdɪskəˈmɒdɪtɪ /

noun

  1. economics a commodity without utility

  2. archaic the state or a source of inconvenience

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Etymology

Origin of discommodity

First recorded in 1505–15; dis- 1 + commodity

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To preuent which discommodity, one of the best remedies is the sufficient and fit distance of trees.

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Even likewise can I say of fair shooting, it hath not this discommodity with it nor that discommodity, and at last a man may so shift all the discommodities from shooting that there shall be left nothing behind but fair shooting.

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You go about, in rain or fine at all hours without discommodity.

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