incommodity
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incommodities
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of incommodity
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Latin word incommoditās. See incommode, -ity
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He could cease to think of them only when he ceased to think of his loss and privation, and the days had as yet but scantily lightened the weight of this incommodity.
From The American by Henry James
At this particular time, by reason of the incommodity of the house, the rite was performed at the door of the domicile.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Peter Charles Remondino
When an wholesome law is propounded, he crosseth it either by open or close opposition, not for any incommodity or inexpedience, but because it proceeded from any mouth besides his own.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
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.
From James Boswell Famous Scots Series by W. Keith (William Keith) Leask
Howbeit, I purpose now to consider first imprisonment as imprisonment alone, without any other incommodity besides.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
Private M'Splae is the possessor, we will say, of a pair of flat feet, or arched insteps, or other military incommodities, and his regulation boots do not fit him.
From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay
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
As soon as my incommodities allowed me to think of past occurrences, I failed not to inquire what had become of the odd little guest whom Hollingsworth had been the medium of introducing among us.
From The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
But yet they shuld liue more pleasauntly, if certein incommodities were taken from them, and had suche pastymes as eyther they dispise orels can not get nor attaine vnto.
From A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure by Desiderius Erasmus
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