inclemency
Example Sentences
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It offers no protection against inclemency of the weather.
From Time Magazine Archive
The inclemency of nature, the rapacity of lay and ecclesiastical authorities and the law’s delays could not be escaped, however wisely a Prioress husbanded her resources.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
It had two stages, and vast pavilions protected the spectators from the inclemency of the weather and the heat of the sun.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
The settlers were, besides, suffering from dysentery, fever, and other complaints, brought on by an unaccustomed mode of life, in dwellings that were mere hovels, and subjection to the inclemency of the rainy season.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by C. Boden Kloss
Life goes hard with each and all alike--privation, the inclemency of the weather, the wild beast, being the common foes of all.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
