inconveniency
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of inconveniency
1400–50; late Middle English: mishap, danger; see inconvenience, -y 3
Example Sentences
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While Patrick Henry thought slavery was “repugnant,” he never freed any enslaved people because of the “general inconveniency of living without them.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
The orthodox prelates resolved to remedy this inconveniency, as they effectually did; but the king receiving intelligence of the matter, caused Victor, the primate of Carthage, to be apprehended.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban
The legislature had imagined, that when the price was so low, there could be no inconveniency in exportation, but that when it rose higher, it became prudent to allow of importation.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain
The greatest inconveniency in it is the multitude of worms.
From A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by Dampier, William
And saith not Bishop Spotswood,269 “It is not to be denied, but they are ceremonies, which for the inconveniency they bring, ought to be resisted?”
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
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