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inconveniency Now rare.|ɪnkənˈviːnɪənsɪ|
[ad. L. inconvenientia: see prec. n. and -ency.]
†1. = inconvenience n. 1. Obs.
a1533Frith Wks. 141 (R.) Of this text should follow two inconueniencies, if the sacrament were the naturall body of Christ. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. i. vi. §8 Thus every way, this opinion..is pressed with inconveniencies. a1682Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend in Hydriot. etc. (1736) 56 Though some wondered at this Position, yet I saw no Inconveniency in it.
†2. = inconvenience n. 2. Obs.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xxii. xxiii. (1620) 846 Lest desire of reuenge should draw vs to inconueniencie. 1747Chesterfield Lett. (1792) I. cxxxiii. 355, I should have avoided many follies and inconveniencies, which undirected youth run me into.
†3. = inconvenience n. 3. Obs.
1553Q. Mary Proclam. Coins in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. App. v. 8 In no wyse can longer suffer the same inconueniencie. 1669Penn No Cross xiv. §7 Insensible of the Inconveniency that attends the like Follies. 1706S. Centlivre Basset-Table v, Now you discover what inconveniency your gaming has brought you into.
†b. = inconvenience n. 3 b. Obs.
a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 98 To saie no thinge in the presence of the peple vnto his displesaunce, for doute of mani gret Inconueniencys. 1543Grafton Contn. Harding 567 That some inconueniencie or cause of strife should chaunce. 1647Sprigge Anglia Rediv. i. vi. (1854) 56 He might have prevented that inconveniency which fell out. a1722Lisle Husb. (1752) 90 For fear of a worse inconveniency.
4. = inconvenience n. 4.
1552Huloet, Inconueniencye, importunitas. a1628F. Greville Sidney (1652) 64 To weigh the immortall wisdom in even scales with mortall conveniency or inconveniency. 1658–9Burton's Diary (1828) III. 363 Your question is not of conveniency or inconveniency, but of right. 1776Adam Smith W.N. (1869) II. iv. i. 9 If money is wanted, barter will supply its place, though with a good deal of inconveniency. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxxviii, There's inconveniency in it, but the novelty gives it a sort of relish.
b. = inconvenience n. 4 b.
1640Quarles Enchirid. iii. 53 Cast one eye upon the Inconveniencies, as well as the other upon the Conveniencies. 1746Wesley Princ. Methodist 31 More Inconveniencies may arise from the latter than from the former. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. ix. 697 The lending of money to the Nabob of Arcot..had given rise to many inconveniencies.
c. concr. Applied humorously to an incommodious conveyance: cf. conveniency 6 d. (nonce-use.)
1877Lowell Lett. (1894) II. xiii. 225 This leather inconveniency will be at the door in half an hour. |