inclemency

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It offers no protection against inclemency of the weather.

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides, they generally want the means of shelter against the inclemency of the weather and against pursuit by their enemies, which holes and dens afford to burrowing animals and to some larger beasts of prey.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

These laws are "a curse equal to the barrenness of the earth, and the inclemency of the heavens."

From Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures by Mitchell, Logan

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)

In all the vessels of the king's fleet, the awning was then taken down which served to protect the deck from the inclemency of the weather.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin