inclemency

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INCLEM'ENCY, noun [Latin inclementia. See Clemency.] 1. Want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; harshness; severity; applied to persons. 2. Roughness, boisterousness; storminess; or simply raininess; severe cold, etc.; applied to the weather. We were detained by the inclemency of the weather.
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