incommodity

• “So that the incommodity that follows the bare words of a written law may lead him to the intention of the law, whereby to interpret the same the better; though no incommodity can warrant a sentence against the law.”

  Leviathan

• “And sic part of the kye or stock as I judge it fit to keep, may be driven thither without incommodity — say about Wooler, or that gate, keeping aye a shouther to the hills, — and the rest may be sauld to gude profit and advantage, if we had grace weel to use and guide these gifts of the warld.”

  The Heart of Mid-Lothian

• “I sat next but one to the Bard and heard most of his talk, which was all about port wine and tobacco; he seems to know much about them, and can drink a whole bottle of port at a sitting with no incommodity.”

  The Death of the Moth, and other essays

• “No inconvenience or incommodity was allowed to be even perceived; and the King always went very quickly, most frequently with relays.”

  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete

• “And here a singular incommodity befell one member of our party.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863

• “But once having made up his mind to move to a better, every incommodity starts out upon him until the very ground-plan of it seems to have changed in his mind, and his thoughts and affections, each one of them packing up its little bundle of circumstances, have quitted their several chambers and nooks and migrated to the new home, long before its apartments are ready to receive their bodily tenant.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859

• “And that which the Latins call versutia, translated into English ‘shifting, ’ and is a putting off of a present danger or incommodity by engaging into a greater, as when a man robs one to pay another, is but a short-sighted craft, called versutia, from versura, which signifies taking money at usury for the present payment of interest.”

  Chapter VIII. Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects

• “But most commonly the most heinous faults be punished with the incommodity of bondage.”

  The Second Book. Of Bondmen, Sick Persons, Wedlock, and divers other matters

• “And therefore (as I suppose) the whole incommodity hereof is not yet felt.”

  The First Book. The First Book of the Communication of Raphael Hythloday, Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth

• “And for this cause they think it too cruel an act, to revenge that loss with the death of many, the incommodity of the which loss no man feeleth neither in his life, neither in his living.”

  The Second Book. Of Warfare

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