incommodity

American  

[in-kuh-mod-i-tee] / ˌɪn kəˈmɒd ɪ ti /

noun

plural

incommodities

1. disadvantage; inconvenience.

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incommodity British  

/ ˌɪnkəˈmɒdɪtɪ /

noun

1. a less common word for inconvenience

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Etymology

Origin of incommodity

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Latin word incommoditās. See incommode, -ity

Example Sentences

And yet I speak not of the care and thought, nor of the great labour and travail, that we must take to run about here and there to make friends; and which of us two that winneth the victory, shall be sure of more incommodity than profit.

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Writing from London, on his arrival, Johnson said, 'I came home last night, without any incommodity, danger, or weariness, and am ready to begin a new journey.

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There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will," and a passage in the essay43 Of the Incommodity of Greatness: "To be a king, is a matter of that consequence, that only by it he is so.

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At this particular time, by reason of the incommodity of the house, the rite was performed at the door of the domicile.

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It apparently had never occurred to her that there could be the least incommodity in her travelling alone; and since she was unprovided with a companion I of course scrupulously abstained from disturbing her sense of security.

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