disconvenience
English
Etymology
From dis- + convenience.
Noun
disconvenience (plural disconveniences)
- (obsolete) Incongruity; unsuitableness.
- 1608 July, Francis Bacon, “Filum Labyrinthi; sive Inquisitio Legitima de Motu”, in James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, editors, The Works of Francis Bacon, […], volume III, London: Longman and Co.; […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 627:
- Carta Articulorum. [...] The convenience or disconvenience which motion hath with heat and tenuity, and how these three meet, sever, and vary.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “disconvenience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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