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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During the season of gathering pepper, the persons employed are subject to various incommodities, the chief of which is violent and long-continued sternutation, or sneezing.
From Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I by Thomas L. Masson
I liked the very incommodities of the place; I am not sure that I did not find a certain mystic salubrity in the bad ventilation.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
I finde it lesse void of incommodities and crosses than vertue.
From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various
But in a week or so such little incommodities would become natural again.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
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
