Middle English Dictionary Entry
inconvēnience n.
Entry Info
| Forms | inconvēnience n. Also inconveniens(e & (error) inconvence. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Harm, damage; also, danger; also, a harmful incident, misfortune, affliction; (b) impropriety, unfitness; also, an improper act or utterance; (c) a morally improper act, a fault, vice, sin, offense; (d) inconsistency, contradiction.
Associated quotations
a
- (1423) RParl.4.257b : Wherfore like it unto your Hygh discretions to considere tenderly these mischiefs and the grete inconveniencis and harme that be likly to falle among the commune poeple of this Lond.
- (1426) Proc.Privy C.3.215 : Whiche þing hath caused persones of þe said counsail to ymagine strangely oon of an oþer..and oþer greet inconveniences.
- (1429) RParl.4.345b : Please hit to you..to considere the meschiefs aforesaide; and the inconvenience that is like to falle therof, to ordeine, [etc.].
- (1436) RParl.4.511a : The whiche ordenaunce hath..put awey mony and grete perjuries, robberyes, and other inconveniences.
- (c1438) *Proc.Chanc.PRO ser.C 1 file 9no.301 : [They] him deposed..of his saide office..in comyn hurte and preiudice of the kyngs people..and likly ensemble of grete inconuenience to falle therby.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)109 : The goode sperite shulde dryve away all thynges whereby ony inconuenyence myght come to hyme.
- (1447-8) Shillingford95 : Wherof we most grevyously compleyne us besekyng you..this to refourme and redresse yn eschewyng of ynconvenyence that myght folwe therof.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)4240 : I shal..specefye..The sorowes and mysaventures, The meschef, and the violences, And the Inconvenyences That loves folkys ha suffred there.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)88/4 : A woman shulde..undermyne [read: undernyme] hym bi resones..what harmes and inconueniencez mow come therof to the foule body.
- (1455) Proc.Privy C.6.263 : Considering the hurtes and manyfold inconvences that shuld ensue..if þe said shire shuld longe stande destitute of a sherief.
- (1469) Paston (Gairdner)5.51 : I understond..that my Lords..eschewe, for such inconveniense that myght fall, to conclude any answere by them self.
- c1475(1459) Pros.Yorkists in EHR 26 (Roy 17.D.15)521 : Ye provoke me to lake by the rehersall made in your fyffete article inducynge a grete apparent inconvenyens of þe outewarde ennymes of þe royame.
b
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)43/17 : Be þe ordinance of þe prioresse, greuus sklaunders rysis in monesterys, whils..sum..takis a-pon thame tyranry, and nurischis sclaunders, and makis dissensiones in þe conuente..Whilk inconueniens [L absurdum] it is ethy to conseyue.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)263 : Bi these vj reulis these preiers, whiche mowen be seid as mad to the cros, mowen be saued fro inconuenience and vnaccordaunce.
- a1475(a1456) Shirley Death Jas.(Add 5467)25 : All thes thynges the said Sir Robert Grame, with many other ynconvenyences, he rehersid there ayanst the Kyng.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)122/31 : If here hath be seyd ore don Any inconuenyens, we Asygne it to ȝour good deliberacion.
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)4.2.57a : Adam was not weel disposed to ete of this appill..for inconvenience of the season which he took it inne.
c
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)49 : Be glader to dye withowte cawse than to do a inconuenyence.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)71 : Arystotle seith that ydilnes ledyth a man to all inconveniences.
- (1446) *Dec.Guilt Coventry (Cleo E.3) : In alle thise premisses..is founden matier vpon the which might sue grete inconveniences ayens the lawes of god, of the chirche, and of oure saide souerain lorde.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)3831 : The wynes delicat..Causen ful many an inconuenience.
- a1500 Play Sacr.(Dub 652)819 : Say what ye wyll, in þe name of the Trynyte, Agayn[s]t God yf ye haue wroght eny inconuenyence.
- ?a1525(1465) Event Edw.IV in Camd.10 (Arms L.9)37 : The heroudes..charged hym with all inconveniences.
d
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)75 : Noon inconuenience is, if God ordeyne the power of resoun for to be oure reule in his seruice doing, thouȝ thilk power of reson..schal sumtime..erre.
- (1458) Will York in Sur.Soc.30229 : If..ther may be founden..any contrariand thyngg or double rehersall..that than hit be taken..not after the doublenesse, inconvenience, or repugnance.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)2576 : Yee mut declare yeur maters to myne intelligence, That I may the bet perseyve al inconvenience, Dout, pro, contra, and anbiguite.