Both Uses of
inclement
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- When I was thirteen years of age we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon; the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.†
p. 40.7 *inclemency = bad weather
- Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.†
p. 109.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(inclement) describing bad weather -- such as stormy, wet, or cold
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and archaically), inclement can refer to a merciless person.