discommodity

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ commodity.

Noun

discommodity (countable and uncountable, plural discommodities)

  1. (archaic) Disadvantage; inconvenience.
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usurie. XLI.”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 240:
      The Diſcommodities of Vſury are: Firſt, that it makes fevver Merchants. For vvere it not, for this Lazie Trade of Vſury, Money vvould not lie ſtill, but vvould, in great Part, be Imployed vpon Merchandizing; VVhich is the Vena Porta of VVealth in a State.
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building. XLV.”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 258:
      Too neare the Sea, too remote, Hauing the Commoditie of Nauigable Riuers, or the diſcommoditie of their Ouerflovving; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discommodity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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