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incommodity

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


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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 Stevens, Monica

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 James, Henry

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 James, Henry

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

And had I not found incommodity there, I had not forsaken it at all; but finding it altogether unsuitable to me, and very unprofitable for me, I forsook it for this way. 

From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Whyte, Alexander

During the season of gathering pepper, the persons employed are subject to various incommodities, the chief of which is violent and long-continued sternutation, or sneezing.

From Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I by Masson, Thomas L.

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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 Donne, John

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 Burke, Edmund

Yet then consider whether any incommodities be so joined with them that a man might almost as well lack both as have both.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica




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