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incommodity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɪn.kəˈmɒ.dɪ.ti/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /-ɾi/ (General-American)
• /ɪn.kəˈmɑ.də.ti/ (General-American)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incommoditās. Compare French incommodité. See incommodious.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage
   • To the first I answered, I had been a true man for a long season, and therefore it could not be expected that I should now cast in my lot with thieves. Then they demanded what I would say to the second. So I told them that the place from whence I came, 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. 1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II:
   • buried him under a bulk of incommodities 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Introductory”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
   • a great incommodity to the body 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:

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