Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inconvenience; incongruity; disagreement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Unsuitableness; incongruity.
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- noun obsolete
unsuitableness ;incongruity
Etymologies
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dis- + convenience
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Examples
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"Much as I hate to disconvenience a lady, I ain't takin 'no chances on rilin' Deveny."
'Drag' Harlan Charles Alden Seltzer 1908
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"If I may make bold, Major Butler, to drop a word of advice into your ear, which, seeing that I'm an older man than you," interrupted the sergeant, in an admonitory whisper, "I think I have got good right to do, why I would just say that there may be no great disconvenience in talking before friends; but sometimes silence brings more profit than words.
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