inclemency

Example Sentences

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It offers no protection against inclemency of the weather.

From Time Magazine Archive

His wife had lately had a child, she was very ill at the time, and want of proper food, and a defence against the inclemency of the weather, hurried her out of the world. 

From Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Wollstonecraft, Mary

The settlers were, besides, suffering from dysentery, fever, and other complaints, brought on by an unaccustomed mode of life, in dwellings that were mere hovels, and subjection to the inclemency of the rainy season.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden

These laws are "a curse equal to the barrenness of the earth, and the inclemency of the heavens."

From Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures by Mitchell, Logan

In 1627 he visited Newfoundland with his family, but the inclemency of the climate convinced him of the undesirability of Avalon.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene