inclemency
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It offers no protection against inclemency of the weather.
From Time Magazine Archive
He found Aunt Selina at home; a slight cold in the head and the inclemency of the weather had been sufficient to make her forego church for this Sunday.
From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells
Sēvēre′ness; Sēver′ity, quality of being severe: gravity: harshness: exactness: inclemency.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
His wife had lately had a child, she was very ill at the time, and want of proper food, and a defence against the inclemency of the weather, hurried her out of the world.
From Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Wollstonecraft, Mary
On the very same principle, troops when engaged upon active service do not suffer from the inclemency of the weather, although saturated with wet by day, and sleeping under torrents of rain by night.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
