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Definition of Discommodes
1. discommode [v] - See also: discommode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discommodes
Literary usage of Discommodes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foundations of National Prosperity: Studies in the Conservation of by Richard Theodore Ely, Charles Kenneth Leith, Ralph Henry Hess, Thomas Nixon Carver (1917)
"... conditions which tend to restrain The abstinence individuals from undertaking
present economic discommodes . . .of conservation individuals in sacrifice ..."
2. A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative by Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1903)
"We must prohibit every use of a street which discommodes those who reside or do
business upon it, because their property will else be damaged. ..."
3. Horse-shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy (1854)
"... talking when it was best to be silent, and, in case of our meeting a body, to
be letting out somewhat too much, which is a thing that discommodes in war ..."
4. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge (1886)
"The hero comes out of his mound to comfort her, but also to tell her how she
discommodes him. He is otherwise well off, but every drop pierces, ..."
5. Unicorns by James Huneker (1917)
"... full of gumbo soup as I was — and you have no idea how soup discommodes the
astral stomach — I was anchored to my seat, and bravely determined not to ..."
6. Taxation in American States and Cities by Richard Theodore Ely, John Huston Finley (1888)
"A small tax may be, often is, oppressive to the latter, while a large one in no
way discommodes the former. A tax of $10000 upon an income of $50000 is no ..."
7. Irish Idylls by Jane Barlow (1893)
"'Tis the hate of the sun discommodes me ; it's blazin' hot this day." " 'Twon't
trouble her much longer then, if that's what ails her," said Peter Sheridan, ..."
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