incommodity

Example Sentences

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He could cease to think of them only when he ceased to think of his loss and privation, and the days had as yet but scantily lightened the weight of this incommodity.

From The American by James, Henry

We will, I say, therefore begin by considering what manner of pain or incommodity we should reckon imprisonment to be of itself and of its own nature alone.

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

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

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