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inconvenience
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?nk?n?vi?n??ns/, /??k-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?nk?n?vinj?ns/, /??k-/
- Hyphenation: in?con?ve?nience
Noun
inconvenience (countable and uncountable, plural inconveniences)
- The quality of being inconvenient.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- [Man] is liable to a great many inconveniences.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
Synonyms
- (something inconvenient): annoyance, nuisance, trouble
Translations
Verb
inconvenience (third-person singular simple present inconveniences, present participle inconveniencing, simple past and past participle inconvenienced)
- to bother; to discomfort
Synonyms
- (obsolete) discommodate
Translations
Further reading
- inconvenience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- inconvenience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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pestilence
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pestilentia (“plague”), from pestilens (“infected, unwholesome, noxious”); see pestilent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?st?l?n(t)s/, /?p?st?l?n(t)s/, /?p?stl?n(t)s/
Noun
pestilence (countable and uncountable, plural pestilences)
- Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 2
- "Take it, Christian dogs? take the palaces, the gardens, the mosques, the abode of our fathers - take plague with them; pestilence is the enemy we fly; if she be your friend, hug her to your bosoms. The curse of Allah is on Stamboul, share ye her fate?"
- 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
- The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 2
- (archaic) Anything harmful to morals or public order.
Related terms
- pest
- pesticide
- pestilent
Translations
Further reading
- pestilence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pestilence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Old French pestilence, borrowed from Latin pestilentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?s.ti.l??s/
Noun
pestilence f (plural pestilences)
- (archaic or literary) pest epidemic; pestilence
- extremely foul smell
- Synonyms: infection, puanteur
Derived terms
- pestilentiel
References
- “pestilence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Noun
pestilence f (oblique plural pestilences, nominative singular pestilence, nominative plural pestilences)
- pestilence (epidemic disease)
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