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discommodity|dɪskəˈmɒdɪtɪ|
[f. dis- 9 + commodity.]
1. The quality of being discommodious; unsuitableness, inconvenience, disadvantageousness.
1513More Rich. III in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 798 He had declared the discommoditie of discord, and the commoditie of concord. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 147 b, Of the discommoditie of Essex Cheese, our..John Haywood..meerily writeth. 1603Knolles Hist. Turkes (1621) 1335 Nassuf excused himself..by reason of the discommoditie of his health. a1718Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 688 The Reason of the Alteration of the Law, ought to be the Discommodity of continuing it. 1829Lamb Lett. (1888) 224 You go about, in rain or fine, at all hours, without discommodity.
2. (with a and pl.) A disadvantage, inconvenience, trouble.
1531Elyot Gov. ii. vi, These discommodities do happen by implacable wrath. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. ii. (1682) 138 Patiently enduring all Discommodities of Cold, Rain, and Hunger. 1662Petty Taxes 35 It would be a great discommodity to the Prince to take more then he needs. 1690W. Walker Idiomat. Anglo-Lat. 476, I have thought of all the discommodities that may come unto me.
b. concr.
1879Jevons Pol. Econ. iii. (1888) 58 As the noun commodities has been used..as a concrete term, so we may now convert discommodity into a concrete term, and speak of discommodities as substances or things which possess the quality of causing inconvenience or harm. |