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incommodity|ɪnkəˈmɒdɪtɪ|
[a. F. incommodité (1389 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. incommoditās, f. incommodus: see incommode a. and -ity.]
1. Incommodious quality, condition, or state of things; inconvenience, disadvantage, discomfort.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 31 The gardyn of delices, where noon intemperaunce is or affliccioun of incommodite, but the fruicion of alle maner delices. a1500Chester Pl. xi. 5 Moche teene and incommodité Foloweth age. 1540–1Elyot Image Gov. (1549) 102 Nor there is any other thyng priuatelie dooen to our incommoditee. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 618/1 Declare your opinion..about the lawes of that realme, what incomodity you have conceaved to be in them. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. xv. (1810) 385 To bee exposed to the like incommoditie of cold and raine. 1773Johnson Let. to Boswell 27 Nov., I came home last night, without any incommodity, danger, or weariness.
2. With pl.: An incommodious thing or circumstance; an inconvenience, disadvantage; a discomfort, annoyance. † Formerly also in stronger sense: Something hurtful, an injury, damage (cf. 1).
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 241 In the ende of herveste were so moche wete and reyne..whereby mony incommodites folowede. c1450tr. De Imitatione ii. xii. 58 To suffre many contrary þinges & diuerse incomodites in þis wrecchid lif. 1579Fenton Guicciard. i. (1599) 16 Touching their expedition by land it was full of incommodities. 1625Bacon Ess., Usury (Arb.) 541 It is good to set before vs, the Incommodities, and Commodities of Vsury. 1711Lond. Gaz. No. 4919/2 The Incommodities of the Season will soon oblige the Troops to decamp. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. vii. I. 107 As soon as my incommodities allowed me to think of past occurrences. |