incommodity
noun
disadvantage; inconvenience.
incommodities
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pluralof incommodity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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No man lives too long who lives to do with spirit and suffer with resignation what Providence pleases to command or inflict; but, indeed, they are sharp incommodities which beset old age.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
But what incommodities and troubles chaunced vnto me in these vyages, as hunger, thirst, colde, heate, warres, captiuitie, terrours, and dyuers other suche daungers, I will declare by the way in theyr due places.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr
Wherein, by occasion of the religious death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury, the incommodities of the soule in this life, and her exaltation in the next, are contemplated.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne
Strange to say, my incommodities belong equally to my companion, though the burden is nowise alleviated by his participation.
From Monsieur du Miroir (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yet then consider whether any incommodities be so joined with them that a man might almost as well lack both as have both.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
