dis commodiousness (diskomodiusnes)

Inconvenience; disadvantage; trouble. So it was plain the fight could not be but sharp and dangerous, for the dis commodiousne of the place. North , tr. of Plutarch, p. 24. discommodity (dis-ko-mod'i-ti), n.; pl. dis commodities (-tiz). [ dis -priv. + commodity. Cf. discommode, discommodious.] 1. Inconvenience; trouble; hurt; disadvantage. As hee that, hauing a faire Orchard, seeing one tree blasted, recomteth the dis com modi tie of that, and pa eth ouer in silence the fruitefulne e of the other. Lyly , Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 189. You go about in rain or fine, at all hours, without dis commodity. Lamb . 2. That which causes trouble, inconvenience, or hurt; anything that injures; a lo ; a trouble; an injury. We read that Crates the Philosopher Cinicke, in respect of the manifold discommodities of mans life, held opinion that it was best for man neuer to haue bene borne or soone after to dye. Putten ham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 171. The discommodities ; either imperfections or wants. Leigh (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 647). Discommodity is, indeed, properly an abstract form signifying inconvenience or disadvantage; but as the noun commodities has been used in the English language for four hundred years at least as a concrete term, so we may now convert discommodity into a concrete term, and speak of discommodities as substances or things which po e the quality of causing inconvenience or harm. Jevons, Pol. Econ., p. 63.