Both Uses of
inclement
in
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
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[*] Place me where never summer breeze
Unbinds the glebe, or warms the trees:
Where ever-lowering clouds appear,
And angry Jove deforms th' inclement year.†Book 12 *
- This was accorded with more good-will than it was accepted: for Partridge would rather have submitted to the utmost inclemency of the weather than have trusted to the clemency of those whom he took for hobgoblins; and the poor post-boy was now infected with the same apprehensions; but they were both obliged to follow the example of Jones; the one because he durst not leave his horse, and the other because he feared nothing so much as being left by himself.†
Book 12inclemency = bad weather
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.