incommodity

Example Sentences

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Howbeit, I purpose now to consider first imprisonment as imprisonment alone, without any other incommodity besides.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica

And had I not found incommodity there, I had not forsaken it at all; but finding it altogether unsuitable to me, and very unprofitable for me, I forsook it for this way. 

From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Whyte, Alexander

In so far, however, as Hawthorne suffered the penalties of celebrity at the hands of intrusive fellow-citizens, he was soon to escape from this honourable incommodity.

From Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) by James, Henry

What a clap of thunder to Excellency Hanbury; his masterpiece found suddenly a superfluity, an incommodity!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Carlyle, Thomas

At this particular time, by reason of the incommodity of the house, the rite was performed at the door of the domicile.

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles