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inclemency

inc·le·mency

uncommon

noun

1.
2.

excessive sternness

  • “severity of character”
  • “the harshness of his punishment was inhuman”
  • “the rigors of boot camp”
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Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin inclēmentia. By surface analysis, inclemen(t) + -cy.

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