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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What a clap of thunder to Excellency Hanbury; his masterpiece found suddenly a superfluity, an incommodity!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Thomas Carlyle
In so far, however, as Hawthorne suffered the penalties of celebrity at the hands of intrusive fellow-citizens, he was soon to escape from this honourable incommodity.
From Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) by Henry James
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
We will, I say, therefore begin by considering what manner of pain or incommodity we should reckon imprisonment to be of itself and of its own nature alone.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
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
But in a week or so such little incommodities would become natural again.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
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
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
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
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
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