inclement

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The season was inclement, the country mountainous and rough, and the horses of the dragoons so exhausted that they could scarcely carry their riders.

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  1. adjective Stormy: inclement weather.
  2. adjective Showing no clemency; unmerciful.

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  • Our climate (in the north) is inclement, and our houses not as compact as they might be, but it is a stirring climate, and the worse the weather, the more unceasingly entertaining are my study windows, and the month that is to come is the glory of the year with us. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • The weather being inclement, as you no doubt recall, we were unable to reach Luxor until after she had been warned of your escape and mine. —  52316_ApeWhoGuardsTheBalance
  • Locations for diploma ceremonies are outlined by school and include plans for fair, inclement, and severe weather. —  U.Va. Mobile
  • The weather being inclement, they felt it their duty to keep us in doors, lest we should catch cold In these elegant and commodious vehicles we were transported next day till we reached Greensboro, North Carolina, about fifty miles southwest from Danville. —  Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5
  • The spring had been on the whole inclement, and now, with suddenness, winter came back for a final word. —  The Long Roll
 

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  1. =F. inclément = Spanish Portuguese Italian inclemente, from Latin inclemen(t-)s, unmerciful, harsh, from in- privative + clemen(t-)s, mild: see clement.
 

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/ɪnˈklɛmənt/
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