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discommodity

[ dis-kuh-mod-i-tee ]

noun

Archaic.
plural discommodities.
  1. inconvenience; disadvantageousness.
  2. a source of inconvenience or trouble; disadvantage.


discommodity

/ ˌɪəˈɒɪɪ /

noun

  1. economics a commodity without utility
  2. archaic.
    the state or a source of inconvenience
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of discommodity1

First recorded in 1505–15; dis- 1 + commodity
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To preuent which discommodity, one of the best remedies is the sufficient and fit distance of trees.

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Even likewise can I say of fair shooting, it hath not this discommodity with it nor that discommodity, and at last a man may so shift all the discommodities from shooting that there shall be left nothing behind but fair shooting.

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You go about, in rain or fine at all hours without discommodity.

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