inclemency

English

Etymology

From inclement +‎ -cy. From Latin inclementia.

Noun

inclemency (usually uncountable, plural inclemencies)

1. The quality of being inclement; lack of clemency.
2. Something that is inclement.
   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal:

     with neither house nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather

   • 1849, Edwin Bryant, What I Saw in California‎:

     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.

   • 1874, Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island‎:

     There had been rain, squalls mingled with snow, hailstorms, gusts of wind, but these inclemencies did not last.

   • 1922, Charles Sylvester, Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5‎:

     The cry of the suffering and dying rings in our ears, as they are dragged from their beds, to be exposed to the inclemencies of the ice-covered sea in an open boat.