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inclemency

noun

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin inclēmentia. By surface analysis, inclemen(t) + -cy.

  1. learned borrowing from inclēmentia

Definitions

  1. The quality of being inclement

    The quality of being inclement; lack of clemency.

  2. Something that is inclement.

    • with neither house nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather
    • They are built of rough sticks, covered with bulrushes or grass, in such a manner as to completely protect the inhabitants from all the inclemencies of the weather.
    • There had been rain, squalls mingled with snow, hailstorms, gusts of wind, but these inclemencies did not last.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for inclemency. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA