incommodity

English

Etymology

From Latin incommoditas. Compare French incommodité. See incommodious.

Noun

incommodity (countable and uncountable, plural incommodities)

1. (archaic) inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage
   • 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:

     a great incommodity to the body

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Introductory”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

     buried him under a bulk of incommodities

   • 1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II:

     To the first I answered, I had been a true man for a long season, and therefore it could not be expected that I should now cast in my lot with thieves. Then they demanded what I would say to the second. So I told them that the place from whence I came, 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.

References

• “incommodity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.