Middle English Dictionary Entry
disconvēnience n.
Entry Info
| Forms | disconvēnience n. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Incongruity, inconsistency, discord; (b) unsuitableness, unfitness, impropriety.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)46b/b : Idropysy in a complexioun hote and drie is yuel for it is with disconuenience [*Ch.(2): discordynge; L disconuenientia] of particlerez.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.473 : I..knowe ful weel the grete difference Hid in thi-silff of woordes & thynkyng, Atween hem bothe the disconvenience.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.270 : How grete a disconvenience Þan is betwene his fortune and his dede.
b
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.SSecr.(Sln 2464)953 : Ther is A maneer disconvenience In Re publica is hoolde vicious, A kyng to pleyne vpon Indigence, Outhir in desirs to been Avaricious.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Just Measure (Hrl 2251)42 : An olde prouerbe, mesour is tresoure, Where mesoure faileth is disconuenience.