discommodity

American  

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

noun

Archaic.

discommodities plural

1. inconvenience; disadvantageousness.

2. a source of inconvenience or trouble; disadvantage.

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discommodity British  

/ ˌdɪskəˈmɒdɪtɪ /

noun

1. economics a commodity without utility

2. archaic the state or a source of inconvenience

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• discommodities
  plural

Etymology

Origin of discommodity

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

Example Sentences

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discommodity discommodities

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 Lamb, Mary

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 Lawson, William, fl. 1618

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 Bacon, Francis

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 Morton, Charles

The discommodities of usury are, first, it makes fewer merchants.

From Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Elliott, Calvin

The discommodities of usury are, First, that it makes fewer merchants.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis

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 Elliott, Calvin