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discommodity en · NOUN

Etymology

From dis- + commodity.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Disadvantage; inconvenience.
   • Too neare the Sea, too remote, Hauing the Commoditie of Nauigable Riuers, or the diſcommoditie of their Ouerflovving; […] 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building. XLV.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 258:
   • The Diſcommodities of Vſury are: Firſt, that it makes fevver Merchants. For vvere it not, for this Lazie Trade of Vſury, Money vvould not lie ſtill, but vvould, in great Part, be Imployed vpon Merchandizing; VVhich is the Vena Porta of VVealth in a State. 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usurie. XLI.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 240:

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